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Behold the purest form of your existence: your complete genetic makeup.  Karyotyping, the painstaking process of lysing a cell in metaphase and differentiating the chromosomes (seen above), is both beautiful and a helpful diagnostic tool for many diseases.  Fluorescent stains are sometimes used to highlight different genes, as shown on the male karyotype.  Some conditions, such as chronic mylogenous leukemia (CML), involve visible translocations as seen in picture 3; the arrows indicate where part of chromosome 22 has attached to chromosome 9, encoding a defective gene (BCR-ABL) and causing the gamut of problems that is CML.  

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    This will never fail to amaze me. Yes I want to run off and be a teacher but look at that. Those 23 pairs of chromsomes...

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