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    sex chromosomes in each cell. Males have one Y chromosome and one X chromosome, while females have two X chromosomes. In mammals, the Y chromosome contains...
    81 KB (8,127 words) - 11:18, 23 June 2024
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    Homologs have the same genes in the same loci, where they provide points along each chromosome that enable a pair of chromosomes to align correctly with...
    24 KB (2,767 words) - 22:08, 17 May 2024
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    Y chromosome containing about 70 genes, out of 20,000–25,000 total genes in the human genome. Each person usually has one pair of sex chromosomes in...
    42 KB (3,872 words) - 08:56, 25 June 2024
  • Genes, Chromosomes & Cancer is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal...
    1 KB (50 words) - 12:32, 29 January 2023
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    idiochromosomes) are chromosomes that carry the genes that determine the sex of an individual. The human sex chromosomes are a typical pair of mammal allosomes...
    30 KB (3,662 words) - 00:18, 25 June 2024
  • irregular portion of chromosomal DNA. These can occur in the form of numerical abnormalities, where there is an atypical number of chromosomes, or as structural...
    18 KB (1,966 words) - 12:02, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chromosomal translocation
    is a chromosome abnormality caused by exchange of parts between non-homologous chromosomes. Two detached fragments of two different chromosomes are switched...
    19 KB (1,523 words) - 17:33, 22 March 2024
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    Chromosome 2 is one of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 2 is the second-largest...
    40 KB (2,528 words) - 18:32, 2 June 2024
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    Chromosome 21 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. Chromosome 21 is both the smallest human autosome and chromosome, with 45 million base...
    34 KB (3,086 words) - 10:35, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sex-chromosome dosage compensation
    various methods to equalize gene expression among the sexes. Because sex chromosomes contain different numbers of genes, different species of organisms...
    57 KB (7,670 words) - 19:48, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for XY sex-determination system
    for genes present on chromosomes. In humans, most mammals, and some other species, two of the chromosomes, called the X chromosome and Y chromosome, code...
    29 KB (3,396 words) - 15:04, 27 June 2024
  • human genes are as follows: Human chromosomes, each of which contains an incomplete list of genes located on that chromosome, are as follows: Chromosome 1...
    2 KB (144 words) - 07:48, 28 March 2024
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    arm) is 11q. At about 21.5 genes per megabase, chromosome 11 is one of the most gene-rich, and disease-rich, chromosomes in the human genome. More than...
    28 KB (1,930 words) - 22:58, 28 March 2024
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    22 paired chromosomes, termed autosomes, plus the 23rd pair of sex chromosomes (XX) in the female and (XY) in the male. These chromosomes are all large...
    99 KB (10,152 words) - 19:21, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Polytene chromosome
    Polytene chromosomes are large chromosomes which have thousands of DNA strands. They provide a high level of function in certain tissues such as salivary...
    16 KB (1,980 words) - 00:24, 31 October 2023
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    integrity. These chromosomes display a complex three-dimensional structure, which plays a significant role in transcriptional regulation. Chromosomes are normally...
    65 KB (6,606 words) - 22:31, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chromosomal crossover
    Chromosomal crossover, or crossing over, is the exchange of genetic material during sexual reproduction between two homologous chromosomes' non-sister...
    32 KB (3,709 words) - 00:41, 26 June 2024
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    X-linked genes are hemizygous in males with normal chromosomes, because they have only one X chromosome and few of the same genes are on the Y chromosome. Transgenic...
    16 KB (2,013 words) - 20:22, 24 March 2024
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    types of molecular genes: protein-coding genes and non-coding genes. During gene expression (the synthesis of RNA or protein from a gene), DNA is first copied...
    110 KB (12,568 words) - 07:41, 2 July 2024
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    contain sexual determination genes even though they are not sex chromosomes. For example, the SRY gene on the Y chromosome encodes the transcription factor...
    11 KB (1,092 words) - 19:38, 19 May 2024
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