Question

Main function of the following
a)chromosome
b)ribosomes

Answer 1

Chromosomes looks like rod shaped having dark stained bodies which is seen in the event of the meta-phase stage of mitosis.

This can be viewed in microscope when cells are stained with a suitable basic dye.

It was invented by Strasburger in 1815.

The term ‘chromosome’ was adopted by Waldeyer in 1888.

Ribosomes is the factory of the cell. If if DNA/RNA is considered as the blueprint for the cell, the ribosomes study blueprint and transfer it into proteins.

Ribosome takes in genetic information in the form of RNA,