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Chromosome

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Biography

Name: Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz
Birth Date: October 6, 1836
Death Date: January 23, 1921
Place of Birth: Hehlen, Germany
Nationality: German
Gender: Male
Occupations: anatomist

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Biography of Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz
565 words, approx. 2 pages
Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz was a professor of anatomy and histology who coined the word "chromosome" in 1886. Waldeyer, noting the ability of thread-like structures in the nucleus to be stained by the dye fuchsin, named them "chromo"...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Chromosome, Prokaryotic Summary
1,431 words, approx. 5 pages
The bacterial or prokaryotic chromosome differs in many ways from that of the eukaryote. The term "eukaryote" comes from the Greek and means "true nucleus." Eukaryotic cells have a double membrane (the nuclear membrane)...
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Chromosomes Summary
1,414 words, approx. 5 pages
Chromosomes are microscopic units containing organized genetic information, located in the nuclei of diploid and haploid cells (e.g., human somatic and sex cells), and are also present in one-cell non-nucleated organisms (unicellular microorganisms)...
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Chromosomes, Eukaryotic Summary
1,412 words, approx. 5 pages
Chromosomes are microscopic units containing organized genetic information, eukaryotic chromosomes are located in the nuclei of diploid and haploid cells (e.g., human somatic and sex cells). Prokaryotic chromosomes are also present in one-cell...
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Chromosomal Banding Summary
1,249 words, approx. 4 pages
A chromosome banding pattern is comprised of alternating light and dark stripes, or bands, that appear along its length after being stained with a dye. A unique banding pattern is used to identify each chromosome and to diagnose chromosomal...
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Chromosome Information
4,860 words, approx. 16 pages
Chromosomes are organized structures of DNA and proteins that are found in cells. Chromosomes contain a single continuous piece of DNA, which contains many genes, regulatory elements and other nucleotide sequences. Chromosomes also contain DNA-bound...
 


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
In Pursuit Of The Y Chromosome
12/14/2004: 959 words, approx. 3 pages
Over the last year, Dr. David Page has restored respectability to the runt, the Rodney Dangerfield, the wasteland of the human genome the Y chromosome. The publication of the geneticist's research into the chromosome that establishes maleness firmly established his reputation in the...
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The Washington Post
Campaigning on Cash and Chromosomes
05/28/1998: 763 words, approx. 3 pages
The woman introducing Lt. Gov. Gray Davis to this lunchtime audience of feminist lawyers says he is unlike some men, who vote right but then "retreat to their cigar-and-brandy male-bonding sessions." Davis, trying to become California's fourth Democratic governor in this century and the...
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Reuters North American News Service
Scientists create gene map for synthetic life
1/24/2008: 552 words, approx. 2 pages
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have assembled the entire genome of a living organism -- a bacterium -- in what they hope is an important step to creating artificial life. The bug, Mycoplasma genitalium, has the smallest known genome of any truly living organism, with...
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Kyodo World Service
Japanese specialists collaborate with U.S. on nuclear terrorism
8/4/2007: 779 words, approx. 3 pages
A special antinuclear terror laboratory founded last year by the U.S. government has received collaboration from Japanese specialists who have researched atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and victims of U.S. nuclear testing in the 1950s, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Agency...
 


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