Chromosome Evolution

Fissions and fusion is the most common way for the number of chromosomes to change.

Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, but all of the other great apes have 24 pairs. At some point since our lineage split from that of chimpanzees, two chromosomes fused

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Pyruvate kinase acts in the nucleus to regulate the transcription of genes that respond to thyroid hormone. Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase moonlights both as uracil DNA glycosylase, effecting the repair of damaged DNA, and as a regulator of histone H2B transcription. 

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The enzyme that catalyzes this reversible reaction is called succinyl-CoA synthetase or succinic thiokinase

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Insulin activates

GluT4

Hexokinase

Glycogen Synthase

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