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Adnan Oktar
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Thymine
Adenine
Guanine
Cytosine
long thread is wound around a reel, the DNA is packaged and installed
in the nucleus through a similar cellular mechanism. The DNA strip is
packaged by being wound around nucleosomes, which give rise to
chromosomes. The job of the nucleosomes is undertaken by proteins
known as histones.
There is a 15-turn section of the DNA spiral in one nucleosome;
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and this is the length of 150 nucleotides. This 15-turn section is wound
twice around a protein nucleus, made up of eight histones containing a
large number of positively charged amino acids. These perfectly com-
plement the negatively charged phosphates on the DNA.
