Eukaryotic Chromosomes
This pathway provides an overview of the general characteristics of a eukaryotic cell and explores how their genomic content is organized by examining key features of eukaryotic chromosomes.
Topics
- 3’ end
- 5’ end
- 10 nanometers
- 10 nm
- 10-nm fiber
- 20 bp
- 147 bp
- 30 nanometers
- 30 nm
- 30-nm fiber
- 250 nm
- 300 nm
- 300-nm fiber
- 700 nm
- 1400 nm
- animals
- animal cell
- band
- base pairs
- bp
- A-T base pair
- adenine
- antiparallel
- base pair
- C-G base pair
- cell
- cell diameter
- cell membrane
- centromere
- centrosome
- centriole
- chloroplasts
- chromatin
- chromosome
- chromatid
- chromatin fiber
- chromatin loops
- chromosome compaction
- chromosome separation
- compaction
- complementary base pair
- core histones
- covalent bond
- cytoplasm
- cytosine
- cytoskeleton
- deoxyribonucleic acid
- deoxyribose sugar
- deoxyribose sugar-phosphate backbone
- diploid
- DNA double helix
- DNA loop
- DNA packaging
- DNA sequence
- DNA
- double helix
- endoplasmic reticulum
- ER
- ER-associated ribosomes
- eukaryote
- eukaryotes
- eukaryotic
- eukaryotic cell
- eukaryotic chromosome
- eukaryotic chromosome compaction
- gene
- genetic information
- genome
- Giemsa stain
- G-banding
- Golgi apparatus
- guanine
- H1
- H2A
- H2B
- H3
- H4
- H bond
- histone
- human cell
- hydrogen bond
- intermediate filaments
- linker DNA
- linker histone
- longer arm
- loci
- locus
- membrane-bound organelles
- microfilaments (actin filaments)
- microtubules
- mitochondria
- mitochondrion
- mitosis
- mitotic chromosome
- nanometer
- nitrogenous base
- nucleic acid
- nucleotide sequence
- nuclear envelope
- nucleus
- nuclear pore
- nucleolus
- nm
- nucleosome
- nucleotide
- nuclei
- organism
- p arm
- peroxisomes
- phosphate group
- plasma membrane
- polarity
- positively charged
- proteins
- protein scaffold
- q arm
- ribosomes
- replicated chromosome
- shorter arm
- sister chromatids
- stain
- sugar-phosphate backbone
- thymine
- vacuole