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strands* in its nucleus, and each strand is available in two, nearly identical copies. so there are pairs of dna strands*, and fom each pair, one strands is received from the father, the other from the mother. in a normal cell situation, the dna strands are invisible with a microscope, but when a cells
is about to divide into two new cells, the dna is duplicated and each old strand and its new duplicate is compacted into a chromosome. the chromosomes are, in constrast to the non-compacted dna strands, visible under a microsope (that's why the chromosomes got so much attention in the past before dna...
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