Kalmar "chromatin granule" tana nufin ƙaramin tsari, mai yawa, marar tsari wanda ke cikin chromatin, wanda shine hadadden DNA, RNA, da sunadaran da ake samu a cikin tsakiya na tantanin halitta eukaryotic. Ana iya ganin granules na chromatin a ƙarƙashin na'urar hangen nesa kuma yawanci sun ƙunshi filaye na chromatin. Suna shiga cikin matakai daban-daban na salon salula, gami da bayyanar da kwayoyin halitta, kwafin DNA, da ƙungiyar chromosome. Kalmar "chromatin granule" wani lokaci ana amfani da ita tare da wasu kalmomi kamar "jikin chromatin" ko "chromatin particle" a cikin adabin kimiyya.