The single chromosome displayed here and those on the previous screen are shown in their most compacted state -- they're about to divide, along with the cell, through the process of mitosis.

Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how chromosomes change shape during cell division. Certain protein complexes help fold DNA into ...

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport to the daughter cells during cell division, each chromosome forms a compact X-shaped structure with two rod-like copies. How the cell ...

Location where aerobic respiration ... Compartment in cell where DNA is stored as chromosomes Controls activities of cell Animal cell, plant cell or fungal cell Cell structure Cell wall ...

Accurate chromosome segregation is the basis ... so that the centromere maintains its identity and location through vast ...

Each chromatid is a full length DNA molecule. The stages outlined in the following example show a cell with a diploid chromosome number of four (two sets of two chromosomes) undergoing cell division.