What is the relationship between genes and chromosomes?
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Genes are more basic.
Specifically, genes are the the fundamental unit of heredity in terms of physical representation.
As such they are a segment of DNA.
The relationship is that genes are contained by, and arranged along the length of, the chromosome.
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