beadlike
Americanadjective
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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
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
He had flayed the Hahn picture, testily calling its left eye "dead," "very dead," and "beadlike."
From Time Magazine Archive
Clay, the pawnbroker, a little man with a deeply wrinkled face and shrewd, beadlike, black eyes, was darting in and out amongst his friends, laughing loudly, cracking jokes, and making himself generally facetious and agreeable.
From Good Luck by L. T. Meade
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