she noticed that cells do not tolerate the presence of unprotected chromosome ends, and that broken ends are quickly fused together by the DNA repair machinery. McClintock also saw that telomeres ...

If it doesn’t, the resulting aneuploid cell is at an increased risk of a lagging chromosome and micronucleus formation. Shortened or broken telomeres can leave chromosomes vulnerable to fusion events ...

If it doesn’t, the resulting aneuploid cell is at an increased risk of a lagging chromosome and micronucleus formation. Shortened or broken telomeres can leave chromosomes vulnerable to fusion events ...

The other 2 cells showed 44 and 45 chromosomes respectively and were considered to be broken cells with chromosomes missing. In the cells with 47 chromosomes there were 15 chromosomes in the size ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. She also noticed that the progeny of plants with broken chromosomes had an unusually high frequency of variegation. Some showed a change ...

only a small amount of sequence information was transferred from the unbroken chromosome onto the broken chromosome. The remaining recombinants transferred a larger amount of sequence information, but ...