Post by cjm on Jan 4, 2015 12:33:43 GMT
A shapeless blob?
Not altogether a meaningless question as the shape (apparently) has functional implications.
Not altogether a meaningless question as the shape (apparently) has functional implications.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that all chromosomes are X-shaped bundles. But new research MRC-funded research has shown that they spend most of their time looking more like a tangled mass of string, as Peter Fraser, a researcher at the Babraham Institute, explains.
www.insight.mrc.ac.uk/2013/09/26/what-does-a-chromosome-really-look-like/
www.insight.mrc.ac.uk/2013/09/26/what-does-a-chromosome-really-look-like/