Q. No. 5. An explorer discovers a strange new species of plant and sends some of the plant tissue to a geneticists to study. The geneticist isolates chromatin from the plant and examines it with an electron microscope. She observes what appeared to be beads on a string. She then adds a small amount of nuclease, which cleaves the string into individual beads that each contain 280 base pair of DNA. After digestion with more nuclease, a 120 base pair fragment of DNA remains attached to a core of histone proteins. Analysis of the histone core reveals histones in the following proportions. H1 12.5% H2A 25% H2B 25% H3 0% H4 25% H7 (a new histone) 12.5% On the basis of these observations what conclusions could the geneticists make about the probable structure of the nucleosome in the chromatin of this plant?

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Q. No. 5. An explorer discovers a strange new species of plant
and sends some of the plant tissue to a geneticists to study. The
geneticist isolates chromatin from the plant and examines it with
an electron microscope. She observes what appeared to be
beads on a string. She then adds a small amount of nuclease,
which cleaves the string into individual beads that each contain
280 base pair of DNA. After digestion with more nuclease, a 120
base pair fragment of DNA remains attached to a core of histone
proteins. Analysis of the histone core reveals histones in the
following proportions.
H1
12.5%
H2A
25%
H2B
25%
H3
0%
H4
25%
H7 (a new histone)
12.5%
On the basis of these observations what conclusions could the
geneticists make about the probable structure of the
nucleosome in the chromatin of this plant?
Transcribed Image Text:Q. No. 5. An explorer discovers a strange new species of plant and sends some of the plant tissue to a geneticists to study. The geneticist isolates chromatin from the plant and examines it with an electron microscope. She observes what appeared to be beads on a string. She then adds a small amount of nuclease, which cleaves the string into individual beads that each contain 280 base pair of DNA. After digestion with more nuclease, a 120 base pair fragment of DNA remains attached to a core of histone proteins. Analysis of the histone core reveals histones in the following proportions. H1 12.5% H2A 25% H2B 25% H3 0% H4 25% H7 (a new histone) 12.5% On the basis of these observations what conclusions could the geneticists make about the probable structure of the nucleosome in the chromatin of this plant?
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