Sentences with phrase «other chromosomes 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.
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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.
During reproduction, chromosome pairs normally swap genes and cancel out each other's mutations.
Published in Nature Communications, the study shows that as egg cells mature in older women, paired copies of matching chromosomes often separate from each other at the wrong time, leading to early division of chromosomes and their incorrect segregation into mature egg cells.
Defective genes can be caused by mutations in either the maternally - inherited mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) or more frequently, the genes located on the autosomes, the 23 pairs of chromosomes which are responsible for all traits and all other genetic diseases.
Several other technical advances helped, including the development of huge yeast artificial chromosomes, so - called «megaYACs», which can store up to 1.4 million pairs of DNA in one big chunk — 35 times more than can be stored in bacteria, the conventional way to clone DNA.
Because a trisomic cell contains two copies of a chromosome from one parent and one copy of that chromosome from the other parent, one in three embryos which revert from trisomy to disomy will end up with a pair of chromosomes from just one parent.
During meiosis, homologous chromosomes, one from the mother and the other one from the father, pair with each other and exchange parts (recombine).
This requires that homologous chromosomes find each other and pair, and that each pair of homologs become physically linked via at least one crossover before cells enter the first meiotic metaphase.
Trisomies can occur with other pairs of chromosomes as well, giving rise to different disorders, but Down's is defined as the one affecting the 21st pair only.
The chromosome pairing drives a host of other differences between the male and female Lab, including size and a few personality traits.