GENETICS(cell part 2) Flashcards
Chromosome means:
chroma - color; some - body
seen during metaphase stage of mitosis
Chromosome
in 1875 discovered thread-like structures which appeared during cell division.
E. Strasburger
coined the term chromosome first time in 1888.
Waldeyer
is the number of chromosomes
found in somatic cell and is represented by 2n (Diploid).
somatic chromosome number
half of the somatic chromosome
numbers and represented by n (Haploid).
gametic chromosome number
The two copies of chromosome are ordinarily identical in morphology,
gene content and gene order, they are known as
homologues chromosomes.
that control characters other than sex characters or carry genes for somatic characters.
Autosomes
Chromosomes involved in sex
determination.
Sex chromosomes (Gonosomes)
Humans and most other mammals have two sex chromosomes X &
Y, also
heterosome
body cells of animals are
diploid.
have only one copy of each chromosome.
haploid cell
have two homologous copies of each chromosome.
diploid cell
normally measured at mitotic
metaphase
size of chromosome
Each chromosome has two arms
p (the shorter of the two) and q (the longer).
usually observed at anaphase, when the position of primary constriction (centromere) determines chromosome
shape.
Chromosome shape
can be terminal, sub-terminal or
median in position.
constriction or centromere
Diploid organisms have two copies of each chromosome (except
sex chromosomes
is the most suitable stage for studies on chromosome morphology.
Mitotic metaphase
Chromosomes are thin, coiled, elastic, thread-like structures during the
interphase
longitudinally divided
into two identical parts each of which
chromatid
Both the chromatids of a chromosome appear to be joined together at a
point known
centromere.
separate from each other
during mitotic anaphase
two chromatids of chromosome
the chromatids of homologous chromosomes are known as
non-sister chromatids