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ISBN: 9780135188743

Author: Urry

Publisher: PEARSON

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MAKE CONNECTIONS Although the proteins that cause the E. coli chromosome to coil are not histones, what property would you expect them to share with histones, given their ability to bind to DNA (see Figure 5.14)?

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