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Chromosome Analysis: Banding Patterns and Structural Aberrations

"This activity allows students to compare banding patterns of ideograms from four primates (human, gorilla, chimpanzee, and orangutan) to determine which types of chromosomal aberrations (deletions, translocations, etc.) may have taken place to give rise to the differences seen between species."

Keywords:: banding pattern, ideograms, translocation, inversion, deletion, primate, evolution, chromosomal aberrations

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Science and Technology / Biology / Cell and Molecular Biology

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Material Type:: Case Study
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 9, 2008
Date Modified in MERLOT:: September 17, 2014
Author:: David F. Holland, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Submitter:: Jeff Bell

Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division
Technical Format:: PDF
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
Cost Involved:: No
Source Code Available:: Unknown
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Jeff Bell (Faculty)

17 years ago

A nice assignment that has the students looking at real data from a Science paper to learn about both chromosome abnormalities and evolution of the primates. I have also done it where I just give them the figures without the instructions and see what they can figure out.

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