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  2. Chromosome 2 - Wikipedia

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    Chromosome 2 is one of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 2 is the second-largest human chromosome, spanning more than 242 million base pairs [4] and representing almost eight percent of the total DNA in human cells. Chromosome 2 contains the HOXD homeobox gene cluster ...

  3. Human genome - Wikipedia

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    A major difference between the two genomes is human chromosome 2, which is equivalent to a fusion product of chimpanzee chromosomes 12 and 13. [ 110 ] (later renamed to chromosomes 2A and 2B, respectively).

  4. Chromosome 13 - Wikipedia

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    Trisomy 13 can also result from an extra copy of chromosome 13 in only some of the body's cells (mosaic trisomy 13). In a small percentage of cases, trisomy 13 is caused by a rearrangement of chromosomal material between chromosome 13 and another chromosome. As a result, a person has the two usual copies of chromosome 13, plus extra material ...

  5. Karyotype - Wikipedia

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    Humans have FN = 82, [35] due to the presence of five acrocentric chromosome pairs: 13, 14, 15, 21, and 22 (the human Y chromosome is also acrocentric). The fundamental autosomal number or autosomal fundamental number, FNa [ 36 ] or AN , [ 37 ] of a karyotype is the number of visible major chromosomal arms per set of autosomes (non- sex-linked ...

  6. Secondary constriction - Wikipedia

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    Secondary constrictions are the constricted or the narrow region found at any point of the chromosome other than that of centromere (primary constriction). The difference between the two constrictions can be noticed during anaphase, as chromosomes can only bend at the site of primary constriction. Secondary constrictions are useful in ...

  7. Human genetic variation - Wikipedia

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    Differences between individuals, even closely related individuals, are the key to techniques such as genetic fingerprinting. The human genome has a total length of approximately 3.2 billion base pairs (bp) in 46 chromosomes of DNA as well as slightly under 17,000 bp DNA in cellular mitochondria.

  8. Robertsonian translocation - Wikipedia

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    The most frequent forms of Robertsonian translocations are between chromosomes 13 and 14, 14 and 21, and 14 and 15. [2] A Robertsonian translocation results when the long arms of two acrocentric chromosomes fuse at the centromere and the two short arms are lost. If, for example, the long arms of chromosomes 13 and 14 fuse, no significant ...

  9. Chimpanzee genome project - Wikipedia

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    The primary difference is that humans have one fewer pair of chromosomes than do other great apes. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes and other great apes have 24 pairs of chromosomes. In the human evolutionary lineage, two ancestral ape chromosomes fused at their telomeres, producing human chromosome 2. [5]