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Name the following :
A single molecule of DNA bonded to various proteins and which carries the genes, to function in the transmission of hereditary characters from parents to offspring.

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A DNA molecule with proteins together called chromatin material. It act as a genetic material in the eukaryotic organisms. it plays an important role in heredity or inheritance. Chromatin material during cell division gradually converted into chromosomes. In the chromatin material two types of proteins are present, they are histone proteins and non histone proteins.

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