Chromosome pairs | Inheritance and variation | Middle school biology

Chromosome pairs | Inheritance and variation | Middle school biology | Khan Academy –

Genes are located in the chromosomes of cells, with each chromosome pair containing two variants of each of many distinct genes.

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“PLoSBiol3.5.Fig7ChromosomesAluFish” by Andreas Bolzer, Gregor Kreth, Irina Solovei, Daniela Koehler, Kaan Saracoglu, Christine Fauth, Stefan Müller, Roland Eils, Christoph Cremer, Michael R. Speicher, and Thomas Cremer (CC BY 2.5), via Wikimedia Commons:

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Cell, chromosome, and DNA diagrams created with Biorender.com:

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