Sunday, August 21, 2011

3.14 chromosomes

- choromosomes - genetic information
- the DNA forms a shape called "the double helix"
- 1000's of genes in a chromosome
- genes produces a protein which produces a characteristic e.g blood
- different species have different numbers of chromosomes, humans have 46
- they work in homologous pairs
- same gene located in the same place in each homologus pair

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