Somatic Chromosome

... is messing me up. If I have a cell with four pairs of homologous chromosomes, the diploid number should be four, right? Also, if there is ... octaploid. Haploid cell will have half of chromosomes in original somatic cell. So if original is diploid (2n), haploid is 1n; if original ...

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... called diploid cells??? As far as I know, diploid means double set of chromosomes. Is there a double set of chromosomes in eg somatic cells? Because I thought that during anaphase a chromosome was separated into two one-chromatide ...

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I believe triploidy is addition of a whole set of chromosomes, and trisomy is just one extra chromosome, which can happen in gametes (that's the most discussed version) or during production of somatic cells. From the second part of your question about strands doesn't really ...

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... animals, genetic transformation, and insertional mutagenesis in somatic cells and viral vectors for use as therapeutics. The Himar1 transposon ... gene construct can mobilize and integrate the transposon into the chromosome. This technique can be used in cell culture for eukaryotic and ...

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... would also be asexual. Meiosis is the reduction division that makes a somatic cell (2 pairs of each chromosome) into a haploid gamete (the sperm/egg cell - 1 pair of chromsome, acheived by crossing ...

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