Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Chromosome 2

In humans, Chromosome 2 is actually two chromosomes fuzed together. Most chromosomes are X shaped but they're only like that when the cell is about to split into two. Normally they are just a single thread of DNA. For some reason we have one Chromosome that is two fused together. 

There are telomere sequences in the middle of the Chromosome, they usually appear at the ends of the Chromosome.  

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