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Where is nucleosome found?


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Nucleosome:

  1. A nucleosome is a fundamental chromatin repeating subunit that is packaged inside the nucleus of a cell.
  2. In humans, roughly six feet of DNA must be packed into a nucleus with a diameter smaller than human hair, and nucleosomes play an important part in this process.
  3. DNA is coiled around the histone octamer core in the nucleosome.
  4. It has 200 base pairs of DNA in it.

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