HD FS 129 Lecture Notes - Zygosity, Molecular-Weight Size Marker, Y Chromosome
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Hdfs 129 online narrative chapter two 1. Use these notes in addition to reading the text, to be able to fill in the term lists. In this review, if i think something is adequately covered in the term list or the chapter, i won"t go over it here. This class is not a biology class, so we will be somewhat simplistic. There are three types of cells, body cells, germ cells, and gametes. Body cells make up most of our bodies skin, muscles, blood, etc. 23 pairs of chromosomes in its nucleus, or 46 chromosomes in all. Chromosomes coils of dna that look like rod-shaped structures in the cell nucleus that store and transmit the genetic information in the form of genes. The chromosomes occur in pairs, one of each pair coming from the mother, and one of each pair coming from the father.