The octopus just revealed another one of its secrets: what determines its sex. University of Oregon researchers have ...

Chromosomes are tightly coiled structures in each of your cells that contain DNA, the code for all life. DNA is organized in segments on chromosomes called genes. Humans typically have 46 ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

The centromere of chromosomes plays a crucial role in cell division. Using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, an international team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute IPK has ...

Macquarie University researchers have worked with an international team of scientists to achieve a major milestone in ...

Compartment in cell where DNA is stored as chromosomes Controls activities of cell Animal cell, plant cell or fungal cell Cell structure Cell wall Description Freely permeable layer surrounding ...

Dr. Andreas Houben, head of IPK's research group Chromosome Structure and Function. "Our study is the first study in the plant scientific community which shows the effect of structural variations ...

A human cell contains 46 chromosomes. To simplify our illustration, we'll show only four. Though the genetic code of a human being is contained within 46 chromosomes, only half of this number ...

The completion of chromosome synXVI allows scientists to explore new possibilities in metabolic engineering and strain ...

Each chromatid is a full length DNA molecule. The stages outlined in the following example show a cell with a diploid chromosome number of four (two sets of two chromosomes) undergoing cell division.