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Explain why chromosomes are important in inheritance ?

Explain why chromosomes are important in inheritance ?-example-1

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Step-by-step explanation:

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Calculate the distances between three genes on a chromosome using a three-point test cross

Long before chromosomes were visualized under a microscope, the father of modern genetics, Gregor Mendel, began studying heredity in 1843. With the improvement of microscopic techniques during the late 1800s, cell biologists could stain and visualize subcellular structures with dyes and observe their actions during cell division and meiosis. With each mitotic division, chromosomes replicated, condensed from an amorphous (no constant shape) nuclear mass into distinct X-shaped bodies (pairs of identical sister chromatids), and migrated to separate cellular poles.

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