1 In the ensuing years ... Cytogeneticists can now extract far more information about the human genome than just chromosome number. Each chromosome can be easily recognized — even in the ...

According to international conventions, human autosomes, or non-sex chromosomes, are numbered from 1 to 22, in descending order by size, with the exceptions of chromosomes 21 and 22, the former ...

Some chromosomes, such as B chromosomes, can increase their inheritance rate to their own advantage. These extra chromosomes ...