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Each beadlike histone-DNA complex is called a nucleosome, and DNA connecting the nucleosomes is called linker DNA.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Histones and DNA coil tightly together, forming beadlike structures called nucleosomes, which condense to form thick fibers called chromosomes.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

He had flayed the Hahn picture, testily calling its left eye "dead," "very dead," and "beadlike."

From Time Magazine Archive

To explain the planets, Jeans suggested that another star must have grazed the sun, pulling out a thread of sun-matter that gathered into beadlike planets.

From Time Magazine Archive

His vicious old head was covered with gray and wrinkled scales, and his black, beadlike eyes snapped when he opened his mouth to find out whether his fangs were both in working order.

From A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. by Jordan, David Starr