In both eukaryotes and prokaryotes, this highly compacted DNA is then arranged into structures called chromosomes. Chromosomes take different shapes in different types of organisms. For instance ...

How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into ... may be highly irregular and not quite the uniform structure depicted in instructive drawings such as Figure ...

Specialized protein machines called SMC complexes (Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes) play a critical role in these ...

DNA molecules are large and complex ... The diagram shows the relationship between the cell, its nucleus, the chromosomes in the nucleus, and genes. The order that these bases are found in ...

Rethinking Models of DNA Organization in Micrometer‐Sized Chromosomes from the Perspective of the Nanoproperties of Chromatin ...

Scientists have discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes. While six years ago they found that these so-called SMC motor proteins make long loops in our DNA, they ...

The DNA coils into structures called chromosomes. The chromosomes are found in the nucleus of each cell. Figure caption, Each cell with a nucleus contains chromosomes, which are made from DNA ...

showing the organization from chromosome to DNA double helix. The image highlights the start and stop codons that mark the beginning and end of the gene, respectively. The different colored bases ...

A 2017 study published in the journal PLOS Genetics said the chromosome's evolution of palindromes — DNA sequences that read the same forward as backward — and repetitive copies of genes could ...

New research reveals that centromeres, which are responsible for proper cell division, can rapidly reorganize over short time ...

We are interested in the mechanism of chromosome replication, a process that is highly conserved across eukaryotes and that involves the duplication of both the chromosomal DNA and its associated ...