Sunday, April 18, 2010

Locus




A locus (with a hard "c", LOW-KUS) is simply a location in the DNA. The plural of locus is, loci ( with a soft "c", pronounced LOW-S-EYE). Again, the DNA is a long string like object as illustrated below. A locus is simply a location in the DNA. Such locations, or loci, reside at specific places on chromosomes.


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