Topps may have lost its NFL contract in â64, but getting Namath kept those old AFL sets relevantâand fairly valuable. Joe Willieâs rookie card is hard to find centered and because of the myriad of condition sensibilities, itâs one of the most expensive football cards ever to come out of the Topps roster.
Report Abuse. Chromosomes are made up of DNA packaged with histones and other proteins. DNA is deoxyribonucleic acid, an extremely long polymer whose repeating units are each made up of a phosphate plus a deoxyribose sugar plus a nitrogenous base.
Chromosomes are composed of genes. A gene is a segment of DNA that codes for a particular protein, which in turn codes for a trait. Hence you hear it commonly referred to as the gene for baldness or the gene for blue eyes. Meanwhile, DNA is the chemical that genes and chromosomes are made of. It stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA is called a nucleic acid because it was first found in the nucleus. We now know that DNA is also found in organelles, the mitochondria and chloroplasts, though it is the DNA in the nucleus that actually controls the cell's workings.