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its usually the size of it and the information that is in the pair

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Q: What characteristic is used to give a chromosome pair a number?
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What chromosome pair is not given a number?

pair 23 is not given a number.


What is the term for the two sets of chromatids?

A chromosome pair, as in a pair of Chromosome 15, or a pair of Chromosome 5. Others have said Tetrad - Pls stand-by.


What are heterologous chromosomes?

Heterologous chromosomes are those thatdo not belong to the same pair. To give you an example, there are two copies of chromosome 6 and two copies of chromosome 8 in the human genome. If we were to compare one copy of chromosome 6 with one copy of chromosome 8, the pair would be heterolgous


Why is the number of chromosomes always even?

because every chromosome must have a pair to survive


Through a microscope you see an exchange of chromosome segments between chromosome pair 7 and chromosome pair 15 This condition is an example?

translocation


What is the chromosome number of gamete?

They have half the number of the somatic (parent) cell. So if a parent cell had 46 chromosomes in its nucleus, then its gamete would have 23(one chromosome from each pair).


Diploid means what?

Diploid: adj. 1 Double or twofold. 2 Having a homologous pair of chromosomes for each characteristic except sex, the total number of chromosomes being twice that of a gamete.-n 1. a diploid cell. 2. An individual characterized by a diploid chromosome number.It has two copies of each chromosome.


States were chromosomes pair was affected by the Thomsen disease?

Chromosome number 8. (Gene: RECQL4 gene.)


Suppose you're looking through a microscope and you see an exchange of chromosome segments between chromosome pair 7 and chromosome pair 15 this condition is an example of?

the answer is TRANSLOCATION.


What is a pair of chromatin called?

Chromosome


What is the chromosome pair for a boy?

XY


Suppose you're looking through a microscope and you see an exchange of chromosome segments between chromosome pair 7 and chromosome pair 15 this conditions is an example of?

cross over