Heterochromatin
Heterochromatin is a tightly packed form of DNA or condensed DNA, which comes in multiple varieties. These varieties lie on a continuum between the two extremes of constitutive heterochromatin and facultative heterochromatin. Both play a role in the expression of genes.
Actually the double stranded (ds) Dna molecule in isolation is quite ridgid and brittle - not quite threadlike. Also and actually the extended Dna of our Human Chromosome {yes, 46 total placed in 23 pairs} is 1.87 meters in linear length. Within the nucleus is the other Situation.
Defining the [prokaryotic and eukaryotic] chromatin strand as a 20 nanometer wide strand of duplex (ds) Dna, the following occurs only in Eukaryotes - this twenty nanometer strand has an extremely high affinity for Histone Proteins that it wraps around and forms histone cores. These then proceed through more coiling to form The Ten Nanometer Fiber and without interruption coil again on somewhat of an internal basis to coalesce to form The Thirty Nanometer Fiber we see as the Chromosome.
What we see is chromosomes. Before that they are hard to see,
- Chromosone
chromosome
Interphase
Anaphase
anaphase
chromatin
Chromatin can't "condense of" anything, chromatin can condense into Chromosomes.
Chromatin Chromatin
The phase of mitosis where the chromatin fibers duplicate and condense into visible chromosomes is Interphase. Interphase is the first stage of the cell cycle.
Cells condense their chromatin into chromosomes only when cell division is occurring
yes, during prophase
Chromatin can't "condense of" anything, chromatin can condense into Chromosomes.
Yes, they do
Chromatin Chromatin
The phase of mitosis where the chromatin fibers duplicate and condense into visible chromosomes is Interphase. Interphase is the first stage of the cell cycle.
Cells condense their chromatin into chromosomes only when cell division is occurring
yes, during prophase
The chromosomes coil up and condense during prophase
Yes, you can think of chromosomes tightly wound up DNA and chromatin as unwound DNA.
During prophase, chromatin threads condense,coil, shorten and thicken into chromatids, but how do the chromsomes of parent cells turn into the chromatin threads
PROPHASE
chromatin
The chromosomes condense during prophase, the first stage of both mitosis and meiosis.