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Who invented chromosomes?
Walther Flemming
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What year as chromosomes discovered?
1879
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What are chromosomes?
thread-like structures located inside the nucleus of animal and plant cells
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How are chromosomes structured?
Each chromosome has two short arms called p arms and two long arms
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How many years since chromosomes
had been discovered?
144
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How many chromosomes are in the
human body?
46 chromosomes
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What's an sex chromosome?
a type of chromosome involved in sex determination
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Who discovered sex chromosomes?
Nettie Stevens
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What year were they discovered?
1905
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How is your gender decided through
chromosomes?
Two of the chromosomes (the X and the Y chromosome) determine your sex as male or female when you are born.
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What is a gene?
the basic physical and functional unit of heredity
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What is an mutation?
a change in the DNA sequence of an organism
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