Uttarakhand PMT Uttarakhand PMT Solved Paper-2006

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    Nucleosome given beaded appearance to chromosome. They help in packing of DNA in the chromosomes. A nucleosome has :

    A)  about 2 turns of DNA

    B)  8 histone molecules of 4 types (2 mols each of \[{{H}_{2}}\] a,\[{{H}_{2}}\] b, \[{{H}_{3}}\] and\[{{H}_{4}}\])

    C)  166 nitrogen basepairs

    D)  all of the above

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

    Nucleosome is 10 nm in diameter, it is an octamer of histone protein and has a core of 8 molecules of histone wrapped by 2 turns of DNA having about 166 base pairs.


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