What are histones, and how are they arranged in nucleosomes?

What will be an ideal response?


Histones include five main classes of relatively small basic proteins containing relatively large amounts of lysine and arginine. Nucleosomes are made of two each of four types of histones.

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Describe a method used to visualize the location of a protein in a cell

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Like the kidney, a dialysis machine leaves what in the blood?

A. water B. waste C. blood cells D. salt E. glucose

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Exocrine glands:a

have products that are transported via the circulatory system. b. lack ducts. c. include goblet cells and sweat glands. d. release hormones. e. lack epithelial tissue.

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Avery, Macleod, and McCarty expanded on Griffith's experiment to prove that DNA is the hereditary molecule required for transformation. What treatment of the heat-killed SIII bacteria extract resulted in the mouse living?

A) destroying type SIII lipids and polysaccharides B) destroying type SIII DNA with DNase C) destroying type SIII RNA with RNase D) destroying type SIII proteins with protease E) the control group (null treatment), in which all components are intact

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