According to Bennett's model of cytogenetics the spatial order in haploid chromosome complements is based on a similarity relation which gives rise to a multigraph G which is the edge-disjoint union of two of its subgraphs G1 and G2. For even chromosome numbers n Bennett's model postulates that the order of the n chromosomes is given by a Hamiltonian circuit of G alternating in the edges of G1 and G2 o However, such a Hamiltonian circuit does not always exist. We impose a weak condition on the similarity relation and prove that under this condition the assumed Hamiltonian circuit does exist for all even chromosome numbers n < 50, which settles the case for all biological relevant species with n pairs of chromosomes. Moreover we study the structure of the graph G in respect to cycle decompositions and possible generalizations of our results.
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