Cytogenetics is a discipline that study the structure and number of chromosomes including their morphology, position of the centromere, arm length, staining bands, etc. These features can be observed by microscope and enable us to identify different genome rearrangements (i.e., translocations, deletions, centric fusion, chromosome duplications, etc.) by ilustrating chromosomes in defined pictures referred to as karyotypes. In consequence, they are chromosome features that can be used in order to categorize different samples.
Without decomposers, dead leaves, dead insects, and dead animals would pile up everywhere. And most importantly decomposes make vital nutrients available to an ecosystem primary producers- usually plants and algae.
