Chromosome (evolutionary algorithm)
In genetic algorithms, the term chromosome is used to describe any one of the possible solutions to the task that the particular genetic algorithm has been designed to solve. A GAs chromosomes represent a population of solutions to the problem. The terms are used in analogy to biological chromosomes.
Chromosomes are represented as a list of parameters; most commonly this is a string of 0s and 1s, though other representations are also used. The set of chromosomes is operated upon using the genetic operators to refine the population from one generation to the next.