Karyotype
| What it's not: |
A type of pipe organ played at circuses. |
| What it is: |
What you call the specific set of chromosomes characterizing a particular species. In other words, the distinctive number, shape and size of the chromosomes in its cells determine an organism’s karyotype. So humans have 46 chromosomes (two pairs each of 1 to 22 and a pair of sex chromosomes), whereas yeast have 5 (chromosomes a to e). |
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