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Chromatin
Chromatin Chro"ma*tin, n. (Biol.)
The deeply staining substance of the nucleus and chromosomes
of cells, now supposed to be the physical basis of
inheritance, and generally regarded as the same substance as
the hypothetical idioplasm or germ plasm.
Chromatin
Chromatin Chro"ma*tin, n. [Gr. ?, ?, color.] (Biol.)
Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.
Meaning of Chromatin from wikipedia
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Chromatin is a
complex of DNA and
protein found in
eukaryotic cells. The
primary function is to
package long DNA
molecules into more compact,
denser structures...
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Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a type of
immunoprecipitation experimental technique used to
investigate the
interaction between proteins and...
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Chromatin remodeling is the
dynamic modification of
chromatin architecture to
allow access of
condensed genomic DNA to the
regulatory transcription machinery...
- salt-and-pepper
chromatin, also salt-and-pepper
nuclei and
stippled chromatin,
refers to cell
nuclei that
demonstrate granular chromatin (on
light microscopy)...
- A
chromatin variant corresponds to a
section of the
genome that
differs in
chromatin states across cell types/states
within an
individual (intra-individual)...
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Bivalent chromatin are
segments of DNA,
bound to
histone proteins, that have both
repressing and
activating epigenetic regulators in the same region....
- An
active chromatin sequence (ACS) is a
region of DNA in a
eukaryotic chromosome in
which histone modifications such as
acetylation lead to
exposure of...
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wrapped around a spool. The
nucleosome is the
fundamental subunit of
chromatin. Each
nucleosome is
composed of a
little less than two
turns of DNA wrapped...
- term '
chromatin',
which was
introduced by
Walther Flemming. Some of the
early karyological terms have
become outdated. For example, '
chromatin' (Flemming...
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Euchromatin (also
called "open
chromatin") is a
lightly packed form of
chromatin (DNA, RNA, and protein) that is
enriched in genes, and is
often (but...
