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Chromatin

Chromatin Meaning & Definition
Chromatin Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Chromatin?

[n] the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus consisting of DNA and RNA and various proteins

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See Also | body substance | cell nucleus | karyon | nucleus | sex chromatin

Chromatin In Webster's Dictionary

\Chro"ma*tin\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, color.] (Biol.) Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.
\Chro"ma*tin\, n. (Biol.) The deeply staining substance of the nucleus and chromosomes of cells, now supposed to be the physical basis of inheritance, and generally regarded as the same substance as the hypothetical idioplasm or germ plasm.

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