Not exact matches
Like others before him, Schrödinger was struck by the fact that chromosomes are accurately duplicated
during ordinary
cell division (mitosis, the way in which an
organism grows) and
during the creation of the sex
cells (meiosis).
Where the second type of condensin, which is present in humans and other multicellular
organisms, binds
during cell division is another future line of inquiry.
Chromatin is compacted to form chromosomes, which pass along an
organism's genetic fingerprint to newly formed
cells during cell division.