Last day we had an introduction to Genetics and we defined these terms:
Gene
Allele
Chromatin, Chromatid, Chromosome
Homologous pair of Chromosomes
diploid number vs haploid number or 2n vs n
Human diploid number = 46 chromosomes or 23 pairs, here they are below for a male human
Courtesy National Human Genome Institute http://www.genome.gov/glossary/resources/karyotype.pdf
Each of the HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOMES above can contain many pairs of alleles. To understand this, we considered an analogy of shoes...
