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how big is the nucleus of a cell

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a human cell nucleus is 5-8um in diameter and has 2m of DNA

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What is the human genome

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DNA sequence needed to make a human and is split into 23 pairs of chromosomes

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what 2 things can cells be

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haploid or diploid

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what is haploid

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only one copy of each chromosome (23 germ cells)

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what is diploid

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2 copies of each chromosome (46 chromosomes- all other cells)

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how many pairs of chromosomes are there

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22 pairs + 1 pair of identical sex chromosomes

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what are the sex chromsomes

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they give gender- males = XY females = XX

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What is Down’s syndrome

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3 copies of 21 chromosome

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what is a karyotype

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image of human chromosome set

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what is normal cell division

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mitosis and occurs in the M phase

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what 3 DNA sequences are needed in a chromosome

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telomere, replication origin and centromere

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what are nucleosomes

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DNA is packed into a cell by winding it around special stool structures (each nucleosome has 8 histone proteins)

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what are histone proteins

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what nucleosomes are built out of

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what are scaffold proteins

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where coils of nucleosomes are attached to a protein framework

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what are protein filaments

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inside and outside and they support the nucleus

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can the M Phase be viewed

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DNA is tightly packed and individual chromosomes are easily seen

17
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can the interphase be seen

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loosely packed DNA can be seen on lysing nuclei

18
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what is the nucleolus

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where ribosomes are produced. rRNA associate with each other here and ribosomes export through pores

19
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what makes up DNA

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DNA is made up of chemical units symbolised by a single letter and since DNA is a continuous strand it Is a string of letters

20
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what is a start codon e.g

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Catt

21
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what is a stop codon e.g

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tcac

22
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what is a gene

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a stretch of DNA that codes for one protein or RNA and produces a given polypeptide

23
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what signals the start or stop of a gene

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a certain sequence of nucleotides

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