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Identification of Chromosomes and Karyotypes
A human karyotype
This karyotype is of a male human. Notice that homologous chromosomes are the same size, and have the same centromere positions and banding patterns. A human female would have an XX chromosome pair instead of the XY pair shown.
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"NHGRI human male karyotype."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NHGRI_human_male_karyotype.png
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