Does Chromosome Structure Really Matter? Yes It Does.

Posted on March 27, 2024 by frankabernathy

Ring chromosomes in humans, animals, and plants are well known to the scientific community. They are the result of chromosomal translocations and are usually deleterious and unstable. The current thinking is based on a linear chromosome model of replication. My models are circular by nature. As a result, they can better explain how these circular chromosomes come to be during aberrant chromosomal separations.

About frankabernathy

I am a retired cell biologist and alumnus of Ohio State University. I became interested in chromosomes as far back as the 1960's when I wrote a term paper on the effects of radiomimetic drugs on chromosomes. I was fascinated at how they could break apart and reform new structures so easily. I became further involved in the early 1970's after taking a cytogenetics course at the University of Arkansas. I took that knowledge with me to Ohio State in 1980 where I eventually worked on my research and completed my Ph.D. Dissertation, "Studies on Eukaryotic DNA Superstructure". My studies and later research suggested that the DNA within the eukaryotic chromosome is not the simple, linear molecular thread so widely suggested in all the classic textbooks published today. Instead, it may be the culmination of a rapid set of endosymbiotic events where microorganisms plug into each other to create something greater than themselves. Feel free to contact me at fabernathy@sbcglobal.net.
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