Molecular Evolution

Chromosomal Evolution

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Chromosomes are the units of inheritance within the nuclei of all eukaryote cells. The idea of evolution as a principle for the origin of biodiversity fits all phenomena of life, including the carriers of nuclear inheritance, the chromosomes. Insights into the evolutionary mechanisms that contribute to the shape, size, composition, number and redundancy of chromosomes elucidate the high plasticity of nuclear genomes at the chromosomal level, and the potential for genome modification in the course of breeding processes. The many genetic engineering successes indicates that there is little effect of chromosomal location, providing the gene and its cis-acting regulatory machinery are transplanted together.