{"id":162605,"date":"2023-04-21T22:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T03:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/scientists-discover-how-x-chromosome-gets-its-shape-solving-one-of-lifes-greatest-mysteries"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T03:25:04","slug":"scientists-discover-how-x-chromosome-gets-its-shape-solving-one-of-lifes-greatest-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/scientists-discover-how-x-chromosome-gets-its-shape-solving-one-of-lifes-greatest-mysteries","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover how X chromosome gets its shape, solving one of life\u2019s greatest mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-how-x-chromosome-gets-its-shape-solving-one-of-lifes-greatest-mysteries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Britain have finally solved one of the greatest mysteries of life: how chromosomes get their X shape. Chromosomes, discovered in the late 1800s, are DNA molecules which contain the genetic material of an organism.<\/p>\n<p>All chromosomes, without exception, either go through or end up with an X shape before the cells of an organism divide.<\/p>\n<p>But it was always a mystery how they are X-shaped. While Biology students across the world study that chromosomes get their shape during cell division, the exact reason behind their X shape was not known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Britain have finally solved one of the greatest mysteries of life: how chromosomes get their X shape. Chromosomes, discovered in the late 1800s, are DNA molecules which contain the genetic material of an organism. All chromosomes, without exception, either go through or end up with an X shape before the cells of an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}