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nucleosome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English

Syllables
nu-cle-o-some
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the subunits that repeat in chromatin; a coil of DNA surrounding a core of eight histones.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From nucleo- + -some, and to evoke the older name nu body. Coined by P. Oudet et al. in 1975 (see quotation below).

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

nucleosomes (plural)

Derived Forms

antinucleosome dinucleosome hemisome hypernucleosome internucleosome intranucleosome mononucleosome NCP nucleosomal nucleosomic oligonucleosome polynucleosome

Questions

What does nucleosome mean?
Any of the subunits that repeat in chromatin; a coil of DNA surrounding a core of eight histones.
Where does nucleosome come from?
From nucleo- + -some, and to evoke the older name nu body. Coined by P. Oudet et al. in 1975 (see quotation below).

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