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The chromosomes are the packages of genes that allow exact passage of genetic information from one generation to the next—from cell to cell as tissues grow, and from parents to child as families grow. When the cells are doing their thing—brain cells thinking and liver cells storing glucose, for example—the chromosomes are so uncoiled inside the cell nucleus that they are not visible. It is only during the process of cell division when the chromosomes shorten by coiling up that they can be seen as separate bodies.
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Jackson, J.F. (1996). Principles of Genetics. In: Genetics and You. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0227-1_1
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