{"id":614,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:52:46","slug":"chromosome-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Chromosome mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Chromosome mapping is the process of locating specific genes on a chromosome. Chromosomes are collections of DNA, that contain genes. There are different types of chromosome maps. They vary in precision and completeness.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Such a map is useful in understanding how genes give rise to certain physical traits. By identifying disease-causing genes, a possible treatment can be put together.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/chromosome.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\"><span style=\"6px;\">22 CHROMOSOME-TWINS<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Since the vast majority of genes are encoded the same way (see the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Codon#RNA_codon_table#RNA_codon_table\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">RNA codon table<\/span><\/a>), this code type is called canonical or simply &#8216;genetic code&#8217;. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">However, protein synthesis in human <a href=\"?p=191\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">mitochondria<\/span><\/a> relies on a code different from this &#8216;genetic code&#8217;.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/10077301\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">microarray analysis of a genome<\/span><\/a> at the Broad Institute in Boston, USA.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><a href=\"?p=617\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chromosome mapping is the process of locating specific genes on a chromosome. Chromosomes are collections of DNA, that contain genes. There are different types of chromosome maps. They vary in precision and completeness. Such a map is useful in understanding how genes give rise to certain physical traits. By identifying disease-causing genes, a possible treatment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9817,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/9817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}