page_title: Chromosome 2
hierarchical_section_title: Chromosome 2
caption_attribution_description: English: Human male Karyotype after G-banding. Chromosome 2 highlighted
context_page_description: Chromosome 2 is one of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 2 is the second-largest human chromosome, spanning more than 242 million base pairs and representing almost eight percent of the total DNA in human cells.
  Chromosome 2 contains the HOXD homeobox gene cluster.
context_section_description: Chromosome 2 is one of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 2 is the second-largest human chromosome, spanning more than 242 million base pairs and representing almost eight percent of the total DNA in human cells.
  Chromosome 2 contains the HOXD homeobox gene cluster.
caption: Chromosome 2 pair
   in human male karyogram.
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