Aisle 23No. 387 of 460
Splashery
Chromosome
280,000 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Tiny World · Built from a recipe
Chromosome
A chromosome is a long thread of DNA, wound up tight and packed small.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap it to pull its two halves apart.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 387 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 23, Tiny World
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 280,000
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- CC0
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pull apart | Tap | ||
| Split | Button | ||
| Color | Color | #8f6fe0 |
About it
A chromosome is a long thread of DNA, wound up tight and packed small. Most human cells have 46 of them, in 23 pairs. Before a cell divides, each chromosome copies itself, and the two copies, called sister chromatids, stay joined at a pinched spot, the centromere, making an X shape.
Tap it to watch them part, as they do when a cell divides: thin fibers reach in from two bright poles, hook on at the middle and pull the two halves apart to either side, arms trailing. Then the splash puts them back together. This way each new cell gets a full set.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 400,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Velcro (protein-velcro.mp3) | paulocorona | CC0 1.0 |
