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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

For all he knew the beadlike eyes of four or five sharpshooters might be peering at him from the jungle.

From The Fighting Edge by Raine, William MacLeod