Changing the Face of Medicine | A Closer Look at Chromosomes

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A Closer Look at Chromosomes

It takes just one egg and one sperm to initiate the complex process of building a human being. Trillions of cells are eventually copied from a single fertilized egg.

Genetic information in the form of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is duplicated and passed on as cells divide and multiply.

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