beadlike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
A strange and terrible suspicion broke upon Catiline, and the sweat started in beadlike drops from his sallow brow.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Henry William Herbert
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