In humans and many other animals, specific chromosomes determine sex. But how did researchers discover these so-called sex chromosomes? The Sex of Offspring Is Determined by Particular Chromosomes ...
In humans, two chromosomes – X and Y – determine whether we are male or female. Of the two, Y tends to get more attention because of its small, degenerate size. Both X and Y probably evolved from a ...
The natural habitat of eukaryotic genomes is the cell nucleus, where each chromosome is confined to a discrete region, referred to as a chromosome territory. This spatial organization is emerging as a ...