MCQ
Who discovered nucleosome?
- ADarlington
- BJohanssen
- ✓Kornberg
- DTemin and Baltimore
✓
Answer
Correct option: C.
Kornberg
Kornberg discovered the nucleosome.It is tightly packed $\text{DNA}$ with histone proteins. The nucleosome bodies are linked together by linker $\text{DNA}.$
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