Sentences with phrase «chromosome pairs»

These traits are controlled by a single gene that is ultimately located on a single chromosome pair.

Our findings reveal a mechanism for chromosome pairing in Drosophila, and indicate that microtubules, centrosomes and associated proteins play a crucial role in the dynamic organization of chromosomes inside the nucleus.

With lizards, sex is differentiated in two ways: on the basis of chromosome pairs (XY and ZW) and on the basis of a temperature - sensitive system (which is to say that sex is determined by temperature).

She contends that the Y chromosome already starts at a disadvantage: Unlike the X, it has no partner for genetic recombination (the random exchange of segments between chromosome pairs), so it can accumulate harmful mutations, leaving it perennially vulnerable.

During meiosis, each set of homologous chromosomes pair up in a kind of chromosomal square dance, chromosome 1 with chromosome 1, 2 with 2, and so on down the line.

Humans have 23 body chromosome pairs, and they also have two more single ones, which are known as the X and the Y.

During that process, chromosomes pairs get drawn apart and duplicated, but only one of the four resulting chromosomes will make it into the egg cell; the others are destroyed.

While chimps have only two copies of the salivary amylase gene (one on each of the relevant chromosome pair), humans have an average of six, with some people having as many as 15 (Nature Genetics, vol 39, p 1256).

During reproduction, chromosome pairs normally swap genes and cancel out each other's mutations.

Re-engineering the version of PRDM9 in infertile and semifertile hybrid mice corrected chromosome pairing and restored fertility (bottom two rows).

The researchers then confirmed that the number of singly paired chromosomes — also called univalents — was higher in older mouse and even human egg cells, indicating that age - related segregation errors could be tracked back to increased numbers of prematurely separated chromosome pairs.

Closer examination of the chromosome - tracking data showed that the dominant type of error was predivision of sister chromatids, and not movement of intact chromosome pairs to only one of the new cells.

Good chromosome pairing happens less often in infertile and semifertile hybrids than in fertile hybrids.

Recombination refers to the formation of new combinations of genes naturally during meiosis, which is a stage of the cell cycle where chromosomes pair up and undergo exchange.

It arises from the deletion of no more than 20 genes from one chromosome of the seventh chromosome pair.

«Now that we have the gene, we can actually use that gene sequence to temporarily silence the gene and make rye and other chromosomes pair with wheat and transfer genes by a natural method into wheat without calling it GMO,» Gill said.

How do meiocytes recognize if chromosome pairing fails, how do they correct such errors, and how defective meiocytes are eliminated, in order to avoid the formation of gametes with aneuploidy / abnormal genomes?

Recently they included the Dartmouth Leukemia Mini-Symposium organized by Patricia Ernst, the Life Sciences Symposium planned by Duane Compton, PhD, and the New England Regional Chromosome Pairing meeting coordinated by Giovani Bosco, PhD.

Chromosome pair after recombination

Chromosome pair before recombination 2.

Cells do not always divide correctly, so sometimes instead of an XX or XY sex chromosome pairing, the kitten ends up with three chromosomes.

Note that the chromosomes are labeled 1 to 38 and the last one is labeled as the X-Y chromosome pair.

We are particularly interested in the mechanism of chromosome pairing and the quality control of the crossover formation process, and we aim to understand how the formation of gametes with abnormal / aneuploid genome is minimized in mammals.

How do meiocytes ensure that at least one crossover forms between each homologous chromosome pair?

Dogs have about 19,000 genes arranged on 39 body chromosome pairs.

The most common cause of first - trimester miscarriages is chromosomal abnormalities in the baby, especially trisomy (three copies of one or more of the 23 chromosome pairs).

Recombination, or crossing - over, occurs when sperm and egg cells are formed and segments of each chromosome pair are interchanged.

Humans have 22 chromosome pairs and two sex chromosomes: XX for females, and XY (shown) for males — at least for now.

As part of that effort, they also ventured into the sequence and structure of the centromere, an important albeit rather inscrutable region of the chromosome that assists in chromosome pairing — a region most genome sequencers ignore.

The investigators focused on the chromosome pair containing the Gp - 9 gene.

Before dividing, pairs of identical chromosomes line up in the middle of the elongated cell, and the microtubules, emanating out from the centrioles on either side, help pull the chromosomes in opposite directions so that each new cell receives one member of each chromosome pair.

The scientists also couldn't predict what the child's genome looks like at roughly 1 million points where both parents had differences between their chromosome pairs.

The genome is organized in 4 chromosome pairs (Figure 1A) and is estimated to contain 10 - 12,000 genes (G. Rubin and G. Miklos, unpubl.).

The cell is not allowed to proceed with chromosome segregation if even a single kinetochore is not properly attached to the spindle (and thus the chromosome pair not properly bioriented).

With birds, males exhibit pairs of Z - chromosomes while females exhibit Z - and W - chromosome pairs.

In the case of mammals, females exhibit pairs of X-chromosomes while males exhibit X - and Y - chromosome pairs.

As mitosis progresses, the microtubules align the chromosomes along the mid-line of the cell, then shorten and pull the chromosome pairs at their centromeres to opposite sides of the cell.

First, homologous (like) chromosomes pair up at the cell equator where they actually exchange genetic information.

The X form is a chromosome pair; the blue ends are the telomeres.

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When germ (reproductive) cells are forming, the chromosome pairs are separated with only one copy going into each sperm or egg.

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