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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...
- salt-and-pepper
chromatin, also salt-and-pepper
nuclei and
stippled chromatin,
refers to cell
nuclei that
demonstrate granular chromatin (on
light microscopy)...
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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...
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Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a type of
immunoprecipitation experimental technique used to
investigate the
interaction between proteins and...
- A Barr body (named
after discoverer Murray Barr) or X-
chromatin is an
inactive X
chromosome in a cell with more than one X chromosome,
rendered inactive...
-
chromosome in a
wider sense, to
refer to the
individualized portions of
chromatin in cells,
either visible or not
under light microscopy.
Others use the...
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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....
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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...
- 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...
- A
chromatin variant corresponds to a
section of the
genome that
differs in
chromatin states across cell types/states
within an
individual (intra-individual)...
