Cell Biology Question:
What are the substances that constitute the chromatin? What is the difference between chromatin and chromosome?
Answer:
The chromatin, dispersed in the nucleus, is a set of filamentous DNA molecules associated to nuclear proteins called histones. Each DNA filament is a double helix of DNA and thus a chromosome.
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