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Chromosomes
  • PART 1
  • Honors Genetics
  • Ms. Gaynor

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Why is Cell Division Important?
  • Unicellular organisms
  • Reproduce by cell division ? increasing the
    population.

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Why Do Multicellular Organisms Depend on Cell
Division?
  • Development Growth
  • Repair (ex tissue renewal)
  • Maintenance

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Cell Division (Mitosis)
  • Makes 2 genetically identical daughter cells from
    1 parent cell
  • Before cells divide
  • They duplicate their genetic material ? ensures
    that each daughter cell receives an exact copy of
    the genetic material, DNA

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Organization of the Genetic Material
  • All of a cells DNA (genetic information) is
    called its genome
  • In prokaryotes
  • Genomesingle, long DNA molecule in a circle
  • In eukaryotes
  • Genome several DNA molecules grouped in clumps
    (called chromosomes)

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DNA Molecules
  • DNA (in nucleus of eukaryotes) can be in 2 forms
  • Chromatin DNA is not tightly packed together
    (loosely coiled)
  • Occurs during interphase
  • Chromosomes tightly packed together (TIGHTLY
    coiled)
  • Occurs during mitosis (cell division)

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Tightly coiled?
Not tightly coiled?
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How Does DNA Fit into a Small Cell?
  • Prokaryotic organisms
  • No nucleus instead have a nucleiod region
  • DNA 1 chromosome

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How Does DNA Fit into a Small Cell?
  • Eukaryotic organisms split their DNA into several
    pieces (called chromosomes)
  • stored within the cell's nucleus
  • DNA is coiled around proteins known as histones
  • Uses nucleosomes to form a supercoil

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DNA histones ? form nucleosomes (help to
super coil DNA)
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Making Chromosomes
  • Occurs right before cell division (mitosis)
  • Steps
  • DNA copies itself through DNA Replication
  • The DNA coils (wraps) around proteins called
    histone proteins.
  • Chromosomes are made.

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The DNA molecules in a cellAre packaged into
chromosomes
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Chromosome Structure
  • Two shapes of chromosomes
  • Single chromosome (1 copy of DNA) V shaped
  • Double Chromosome (2 copies of DNA) X shaped
    a.k.a-duplicated chromosome

Occurs right before cell division (mitosis)
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Chromosomes and Cell Division
  • In preparation for cell division (mitosis)
  • DNA is replicated (single ? double chromosome)
  • V shape ? X shape

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Each duplicated chromosomehas two sister
chromatids, which separate during cell division
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Double Chromosome Structure
Kinetochore attaches to spindle fibers
Sister
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Another view
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Draw and Label the Pieces of a Duplicated
Chromosome
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Chromosomes
  • Every eukaryotic species has a characteristic,
    unique of chromosomes in EACH cell nucleus
  • Ex Humans have 46 chromosomes
  • of chromosomes does NOT necessarily equal
    complexity

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Different Types of Cells
  • There are 2 types of cells in the human body
  • Somatic cells all body cells
  • 2. Gametes reproductive cells (sperm and egg)

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Different cell types ? different cell divisions
  • Eukaryotic cell division consists of
  • Mitosis, division of the nucleus
  • Cytokinesis,division of cytoplasm
  • Occurs in somatic cells
  • In meiosis
  • Gamete cells are produced after a reduction in
    chromosome number

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Chromosome Number
  • Gametes (sperm/egg) have 1 copy of each
    chromosome and are called haploid.
  • Somatic (body) human cells have 2 copies of each
    chromosomes and are called diploid.
  • Human somatic cells have 23 PAIRS of chromosomes
    (total 46 chromosomes).
  • All pairs of chromosomes differ in size, shapes,
    and set of genes.

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Haploid vs. Diploid
  • Haploid when a cell has 1 copy of each
    chromosome.
  • Expressed as n 23
  • Diploid when a cell has 2 copy of each
    chromosome. (a.k.a TOTAL of Cs in organisms)
  • Expressed as 2n 46

Haploid sperm cell
n
Haploid egg cell
n
Fertilization
2n
Diploid Zygote cell
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Set of Chromosomes
  • Each chromosome set contain 2 homologues.
  • Chromosomes have a twin or matching pair.
  • Homologous Chromosomes chromosomes that are
    similar in shape, size, and genes.
  • Each homologue in a pair comes from each parent!
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