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    3. What is a chromosome?

    What is a chromosome?

    What are the challenges of packaging DNA?
    13 December 2013

    Interview with 

    Eugenio Sanchez-Moran

    Part of the show Naked Scientists Guide to Genetics

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    • Previous How genetic inheritance works
    • Next The power of comparing DNA

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