Life: The Science of Biology
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Author: David E. Sadava, David M. Hillis, H. Craig Heller, Sally D. Hacker
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Chapter 16.4, Problem 1R
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The effect of histone modifications on transcription.
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Histone proteins are a special kind of proteins attached to the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). These proteins remain packed with DNA in nucleosomes. Histone proteins make the DNA physically unavailable to the enzyme RNA (ribonucleic acid) polymerase.
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