lil aN HW } f é SS ae Phar t ~ PLEASED with their roles in an unusual Pinent at Ban Demondl ligh | Sch 01... “are Dan Walker, Lee Shirley, biology instructor, Brent Pilkington and Becky Car-:; se ce} 2 ‘ ruth (lett to right). Ben Lomond Student solat Chromosomes i in Bloo _ing the cells dry on the slide)46 — at esha, mamas By JAN SAINSBURY and unusual thing| with the chromosomes hopefully | have 46. A aura ed at Ben Lomond|ruptured | visible on the slide. 1 School. ": elt Those who 4 oe AT chen pongo tos ‘in depemdevieveiindd. _ But now Brent had no way to|Some who halee More than 46 Because f ris 9: one student, students own out of the cells and| oe and woolly rod-shaped are found to be aggressive and his experiment. oii check eee EsrdmalacnmenMee their/microscopes were at school. fies || waite _ until the next morning, bodi microscopic in size, “thatiicar and e a Ain! 45 to 49 with e| 46 being normal, Variation can often bringdeath, reduced fer- the genes and convey heredi al aberrations. nd. tility, and ore from father and mother to child. visible. The control of such aberraLooking through the lenses of ecky’s chromosome of understanding the and tions a 900 power microscope, the tt had worked. goals of) saw 46 chromosomes in one ceili The importance of chromo-| them is one of the as accom- | isolation some isclation is significant. |chromosome of human blood. Their chromosomes. Their Prior to 1956 all school taught! plished by Bren Pilkington. Brent will enter his research that humans had 48 chromo-| cell. Their blood. It was something no high|somes in each cell. Scientists and experiment in the Science school student in Utah had ac-|now know that humans have'Fair at Weber State College. complished before; from start to finish it was an expe pent usually confined to a doing graduate work at < unk}