How does an acentric and a dicentric chromosomes look like? What are they?

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Either acentric and dicentric chromosomes is the resultant chromosome of a reciprocal translocation of chromosome. I need a detailed information for these. Anyone can help?

Answer 1

Acentric chromosomes lack centromeres, because the centromere region has been translocated onto another chromosome. You can learn a lot about how they work and look in this very detailed paper if you need to: http://pingu.salk.edu/~wahl/Tkanda_JCBiochem_2000.PDF

Dicentric chromosomes have two centromeres. You can see how they form and what they might look like here:
http://mti-n.mti.uni-jena.de/~huwww/MOL_ZYTO/sSMC/formacro.htm

Answer 2

Acentric Chromosome

Answer 3

Dicentric Chromosome

Answer 4

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How does an acentric and a dicentric chromosomes look like? What are they?
Either acentric and dicentric chromosomes is the resultant chromosome of a reciprocal translocation of chromosome. I need a detailed information for these. Anyone can help?

Answer 5

Quoted From Wikipedia
"In rare cases in humans, neocentromeres can form at new sites on the chromosome. This must be coupled with the inactivation of the previous centromere since chromosomes with two functional centromeres (Dicentric chromosome) will result in chromosome breakage during mitosis. In some unusual cases human neocentromeres have been observed to form spontaneously on fragmented chromosomes. Some of these new positions were originally euchromatic and lack alpha satellite DNA altogether."

Answer 6

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