Episode 468
How did varying chromosome numbers evolve?
How did humans end up with 46 chromosomes, and mice with 40?
Question of the Week, from the Naked Scientists
March 29, 20213m 39s
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Show Notes
Listener Mattie asked "If humans have too many or too few chromosomes it can cause them to be infertile. So how did different creatures get different numbers of them? For example, humans have 46 chromosomes, but mice have 40." Eva Higginbotham asked genome evolution expert Hugues Roest Crollius... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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