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| Rod shaped structures made up of tightly packed DNA and Proteins. Many kinds of DNA coiling are used to make a chromosome. |
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| Help maintain the shape of a chromosome and aid in the tight packing of DNA. |
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| Proteins that do not participate in the packing of DNA. They are involved in controlling the activity of specific regions of the DNA. |
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| One identical half of a chromosome. Form as the DNA makes a copy of itself before cell division. When the cell divides each new cell will receive a chromatid. |
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| What binds the two halves of a chromosomes together. Important to the movement of chromosomes during cell division. |
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| Chromosomes that determine the sex of an organism. They may also carry genes for other characteristics. Contain X and Y chromosomes. |
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| All chromosomes excluding sex chromosomes. A vast majority of chromosomes in the body are autosomes. |
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| Chromosomes that are the same size and shape and carry genes for the same traits. They are copies of each other. |
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| A photomicrograph of the chromosomes in a normal human. |
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| Cells that have both chromosomes for each homologous pair. Have two sex chromosomes in animals and other organisms. |
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| Having only half each homologous pair of chromosomes and only one sex chromosome. Half of a diploid. Two can be combined to make a diploid. |
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