At 02:31 PM 7/29/2005, Jon wrote:
Now look at the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome It tells me nothing. Not what one is, not why it's important. To me (and I guess to anyone else who is unfamiliar with what a chromosome really is) it is meaningless.
Agreed, the article is in sore need of an introduction. It starts out with a technical definition, that's never a good idea. Too many writers still buy into the mathematical textbook way of structuring things based on their formal logical structure. But that doesn't work for an encyclopedia where people jump around between articles.