Specks of dust on the microscope slide? No, we are looking at the building blocks of our genome
- Written by: Jenny Graves, Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
The genome of the spiny-tailed monitor is divided up into 8 big macochromosomes and 10 tiny microchromosomes huddled in the middle.Jason Dobry, Author providedIf you look at cells from a human or other mammal under a microscope, you’ll see big fat molecular complexes called chromosomes that contain our DNA. If the cells are from a bird or...