Chromatin vs chromosomes

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[Jimpix]

Hi! In the first place sorry for the basic question. Chromatin is located in the nucleus in ONE molecule of specific length, am I right? While chromosomes formining, the chromatin is divided into specific parts (what exactly is that process?) which are those chromosomes?

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

this question is unrelated to bioinformatics. Ask https://biology.stackexchange.com/

[seidel]

Yarn is to a sweater as a chromosome is to chromatin. One describes a molecule of DNA, the other describes states of the molecule. You can google around, use wikipedia, or any basic molecular biology text to quickly get a description of these.