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
Eliakim took it, and his small, beadlike eyes sparkled avariciously as he recognized the diamond, for his experience was such that he could form a tolerably correct estimate of its value.
From Paul the Peddler, or the Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant by Alger, Horatio
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