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Chromosomal Structure

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When two strands of DNA are twisted around each other this occurs   Supercoiling  
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DNA plus protein   Chromatin  
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Highly condensed, darkly staining chromatin. Tend to be transcriptionally inactive   Heterochromatin  
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Less dense, lightly staining, transcriptionally active chromatin   Euchromatin  
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Proteins that form octameric complexes, which eukaryotic DNA wraps around   Histones  
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How many major types of histones are there   Six  
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What histones binds the linker regions between teh octamers   H1  
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What charge do histones carry   Positive  
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Does histone binding occur through the cell cycle   Yes  
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Histone octamers and associated DNA, not including the linker regions   Nucleosomes  
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There are ... types of histones in an octorm, ... copies of each type   Four, Two  
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What is the DNA that wraps around an octomer called   Core DNA  
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What are the stretches of DNA between octormers called   Linker DNA  
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Nucleosomes coil around each other to form hallow tubes known as   Solenoids  
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Chromosomal condensation during prophase also involves solenoids tangling in complex patterns to form the mitotic (or meiotic) chromosomes   Solenoid Tangling  
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The second most abundant class of chromatin protein   Scaffold proteins  
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The most abundant class of chromatin protein   Histones  
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These proteins probably tie the solenoids together to form the condensed, mitotic chromosomes, They also maintian supercoiling.   Scaffold protiens  
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One identified scaffold protein is   Topoisomerase II  
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The dark staining regions, which are beleived to consit of more tighly packed DNA seen on chromosomes   Bands  
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The region of a chromosome that is bound to the mitotic spindle   Centromere  
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Chromosomes are categorized based on the position of their   Centromeres  
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Central centromeres   Metacentric  
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Off center centromeres   Submetacentric  
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Centromeres towards the end   Acrocentric  
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Centromeres at the ends (do ont occur in humans)   Telocentric  
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Chromosomes are divided by the centromere into two regions know as   Arms  
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The shorter arm of a chromosome is call the ... while the longer arm is call the   P arm, Q arm  
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The ends of chromosomes   Telomeres  
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These protect the chromosome ends from damage   Telomeres  
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The number, size and banding patterns of all mitotic chromosomes   Karyotypes  
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All DNA controlling the genetics of a cellular unit   Genome  
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