Which is like a karyotype, a satellite weather map, or the temperature on one street corner?

The answer is satellite weather map. A karyotype is an image of the chromosomes of an organism depicting the numbers and sizes, and other physical attributes. The chromosome pairs are arranged systematically to show their unique characteristic bands, lengths, centromere positioning, and etcetera. They are used to detect any abnormalities in chromones of a cell

it takes hundreds of years to become stable.

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