This is a picture of how a chromosome looks like, a chromosome is a deoxyribonucleic acid molecule with part or all of the genetic material of an organism. A chromosome is made out of these two parts . a centromere is the region of the chromosome which the microtububles of the spindle attach. The chromatid is a threadlike strand into which a chromosome divides longitudinally during cell division.Nearly every cell in your body carries a complete set of chromosomes.Humans have about 30,000 genes in their 46 chromosomes.