Chromatin Structure

Question 1

chromatin

Answer 1

• nucleoprotein matieral
• beads on a string
• nucleosome is the fundamental unit of chromatin and its wrapped around a histone

Question 2

histone

Answer 2

• small proteins made of lysin and arginine
• have 5 subunits, all but H1 will actually create the histone complex

Question 3

nucleosome

Answer 3

• octet of histones and wrapped DNA