The capacities the sperm gain are those for:

recognizing the cues that will guide them to the egg

undergoing the acrosome reaction

fusing with the egg cell membrane

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In the case of human chromosomes, approximately 300 G bands can usually be distinguished during metaphase. A larger number of G bands (in the range of 800) can be observed in prometaphase chromosomes because they are more extended than metaphase chromosomes.

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Heterochromatic regions, which tend to be rich with adenine and thymine (AT-rich) DNA and relatively gene-poor, stain more darkly in G-banding.

In contrast, less condensed chromatin (Euchromatin)—which tends to be rich with guanine and cytosine (GC-rich) and more transcriptionally active—incorporates less Giemsa stain, and these regions appear as light bands in G-banding.

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Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is same as Chromosome Conformation Capture.

3C assays involve three basic steps:

(1) interacting chromosome segments are cross-linked with formaldehyde, 

(2) the DNA is digested, and

(3) cross-linked DNA fragments are ligated to produce products that are amplified and can be further analyzed.

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This is used to identify when regulatory proteins bound at an enhancer are in close proximity to the transcriptional machinery at a given promoter—a physical proximity interpreted to show looping out of the DNA

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The interphase nuclei of some tissues of the larvae of dipteran flies contain chromosomes that are greatly enlarged relative to their usual condition. They possess both increased diameter and greater length. shows an example of a chromosome set from the salivary gland of D. melanogaster. The members of this set are called polytene chromosomes.

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The centromeres of all four chromosomes of D. melanogaster aggregate to form a chromocenter that consists largely of heterochromatin.