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Update: Chromosomes Are Shaped Less Like X's, More Like O's
theatlantic.com ^
| Sep 26 2013, 3:22 PM ET
| Megan Garber
Posted on 09/27/2013 8:44:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The images reveal chromosomes that are not at all X-shaped. In fact, they're pretty much the opposite: They're spheroid. Their DNA strands seem to arrange themselves, most of the time, into loose little blobs of genetic material.
So why the X-shape that has become so familiar? Because chromosomes do take that form -- during cell division. As Peter Fraser, one of the project's researchers, explains it, "This microscopic portrait of a chromosome actually shows a structure that occurs only transiently in cells – at a point when they are just about to divide." So it's not that the X-based images of the chromosomes have been wrong; it's that they've been incomplete. Sometimes, it's X's; most often, however, it's O's. In life's grand game of tic-tac-toe, the O's have totally won.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble
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09/27/2013 8:44:00 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Yes! O for Obama because he is The One!
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posted on
09/27/2013 8:54:00 PM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/27/2013 8:57:09 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: doc1019
Your chromosomes are what effects your existence.
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:03:14 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Considering that I already exist, I will reiterate, how does this information effect me.
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:05:42 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: doc1019
Perhaps you mean to ask how it affects you?
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:06:11 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:07:17 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:10:34 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: BenLurkin
Mayhap ... Whether the chromosome is shaped as an X or an O, effects me how?
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:14:35 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: Paladin2
They say these are chromosomes...
But I think its false color spaghettios.
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:21:12 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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09/27/2013 9:21:32 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: doc1019
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:21:37 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: GeronL
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:22:35 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
I win what? My question has yet to be answered.
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:25:58 PM PDT
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doc1019
To: BenLurkin
I saw that. I was thinking that maybe they were more like a hollow sphere with all of their interaction areas readily available on the surface.
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:35:37 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: doc1019
Because spelling is genetic.
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:38:53 PM PDT
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warpsmith
(Wake Me in 2016)
To: warpsmith
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:40:12 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: doc1019
What shape are Y chromosomes ?
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:00:13 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The monsters are due on Maple Street)
To: UCANSEE2
Maybe they are shaped like:
왜?
(Wae) pronounced "way'... means "why?"
just a thought
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09/27/2013 10:05:23 PM PDT
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GeronL
To: UCANSEE2
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09/27/2013 10:06:51 PM PDT
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doc1019
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