Explain the Differences Between Chromosome Painting and the Older, More

question 24

Essay

Explain the differences between chromosome painting and the older, more traditional method of staining chromosomes being prepared for karyotyping.Highlight the way in which each method identifies chromosomes by the unique sequences they contain.

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Definitions:

Latin Square

A design technique in statistics for experiments with two blocking factors where each variable appears exactly once in each row and column.

Complete Counterbalancing

An experimental design technique where all possible orders of presenting stimuli are used to control for order effects.

Matched Pairs Design

A method of assigning subjects to groups in which pairs of subjects are first matched on some characteristic and then individually assigned randomly to groups.

Matching Variable

A characteristic used to ensure that members of different groups in a study are similar on that particular attribute.