Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Tour of Basic Genetics_ 6 of 6: What is a Chromosome?

Each cell in our body contains a lot of DNA. If you pulled the DNA from a single human cell and stretched it out it would be about three meters long!

How does that DNA fit into a cell?

The DNA is packaged into compact units called "chromosomes"

How many chromosomes does one cell hold? Let's find out here http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/chromosomes/intro/ 

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