BIOL 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chromosome Segregation, Allosome, Y Chromosome

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In diploid organisms each cell has two sets of homologous chromosomes. 22 pairs of autosomal chromosomes and two sex chromosomes. The fruit fly, drosophila melanogaster has 8 chromosomes, 3 pairs of autosomes and 2 sex chromosomes. The chromosomes are in pairs, and the pairs are nearly identical copies of each other. The differences are only small changes in dna sequence that lead to the different alleles for genes. Today we know that the segregation pattern of chromosomes during meiosis is the basis of gene segregation and assortment observed by mendel. This was first hypothesized when scientists observed chromosomes by microscopy and recognized that chromosome segregation resembled gene segregation. Homologous chromosomes, also called homologous pairs of chromosomes. In diploid organisms: mitosis - cell division that occurs in somatic cells (all cells except those producing gametes). In mitosis, chromosomes replicate then divide in conjunction with cell division.

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