Oh why oh why is the structure of my chromosomes???

Question: Oh why oh why is the structure of my chromosomes???
- Keywords:
  chromosomes,
  structure
Asked by aaadddaaammm to Andrew, Ben, Beth, Heather, Louisa on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: General.
- Andrew McKinley answered on 19 Jun 2010:
  
  I don’t understand your question… Our chromosomes look as though they are “X” shaped – they are two rods tied in the middle, but beyond that I’m afraid we’ll have to ask the biologists!
- Louisa Chard answered on 21 Jun 2010:
  
  Hi Adam, what do you mean by this? Your chromsomes are basically all or DNA wrapped up really tightly so that it can fit inside each cell of your body. I think that the length of DNA, when stretched out is supposed to be about 2-3 meters long, whereas your cells are tiny, you have to look under a microscope to see a single cell. So each chromosome is a tightly coiled bundle of some of this DNA and we have 46 of them in each of our cells.

hiya commented on 23 Jun 2010:

it’s from a comedians sketch, as in ‘Y O Y is the structure of my chromosomes’ when its obviously not.

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