Image: Human karyotype with bands and sub-bands

Description: Schematic and relatively language-neutral karyogram of a human. Even at low magnification, it gives an overview of the human genome, with numbered chromosome pairs, its main changes during the cell cycle (top center), and the mitochondrial genome to scale (at bottom left). High magnification (of full size version) more clearly depicts a scale to the left of each chromosome pair that shows the length in terms of million base pairs, and the scale to the right of each chromosome pair shows the designations of the bands and sub-bands. It shows darker and brighter regions as seen on G banding. Each row is vertically aligned at centromere level. The chromosomes are organized into the groups A to G in regard to size, position of the centromere and sometimes the presence of a chromosomal satellite. The chromosome copy numbers are those seen in G0 and G1 of the cell cycle, and at top center it also shows the state of the chromosome 3 pair in the metaphase of the cell cycle, after the synthesis of a copy of each chromosome. The karyogram shows: - 22 homologous autosomal chromosome pairs - Both the female (XX) and male (XY) versions of the two sex chromosomes (in green rectangle at bottom right). - The human mitochondrial genome to scale (at bottom left). For more information and context, see Wikipedia:Karyotype.
Title: Human karyotype with bands and sub-bands
Credit: edit Own work, integrating the following Public Domain pictures: Chromosomes, with annotated bands and sub-bands, by User:Was a bee, in turn using data from the Human Genome Project, as displayed in the Ensembl genome database: Ensembl - Homo sapiens: Animal Cell.svg by Kelvin Ma (for mitochondrial localization) Animal cell cycle-en.svg by Kelvin Ma (for cell cycle changes at top) Female shadow (for the female silhouette), by Mikael Häggström Autodominant en.svg by Michał Komorniczak (for the male silhouette) The purple hue for the chromosomes and cell nuclei was digitally sampled from the following image: Human Chromosomes (crop), before conversion to grayscale, by SANCHITA20. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Author: Mikael Häggström, M.D. Author info - Reusing images - Conflicts of interest:   None Mikael Häggström, M.D. - The work integrates Public Domain source images by Was A Bee, Kelvin Ma and Michał Komorniczak - Also, a special acknowledgement to everyone involved in the Human Genome Project for generating the source data. edit
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