A liquor store (WBZ-TV). BOSTON (CBS) â The price of alcohol could be going up in Boston. The city council has scheduled a public hearing to put a two percent tax on alcohol sales in the city. The Boston Herald is reporting the tax would raise as much as $20 million. The money would go toward substance abuse and prevention programs.
When the chromosomes condense during cell division, they have already undergone replication. Each chromosome thus consists of two identical replicas, called chromatids, joined at a point called the centromere. During mitosis the sister chromatids separate, one going to each daughter cell. Chromosomes thus meet the first criterion for being the repository of genes: they are replicated, and a...
In total, most human cells contain 46 chromosomes with 22 pairs of autosomes, or non-sex chromosomes, and two sex-determining chromosomes. The sex chromosomes in humans are called X and Y. Females carry two X chromosomes, while males carry one X and one Y chromosome.Cells of the body that contain two sets of chromosomes are called diploid.ach eukaryotic chromosome is composed of DNA coiled and condensed around nuclear proteins called histones. Humans inherit one set of chromosomes from their mother and a second set from their father.