In most animal, plant and fungal cells DNA is stored in the nucleus coiled up in thread-like structures called chromosomes. The nucleus of one of your skin cells contains about two metres of DNA ...

Each component of a cell has its own function ... Plant cells have a rigid cell structure. They are made up of a cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm, vacuole, nucleus, and chloroplasts.

How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Histones are ... irregular and not quite the uniform structure depicted in instructive drawings ...

Within every cell (except red blood cells) is a nucleus -- a sphere-like structure separated from ... don't code for proteins and have no known function. Within the rest of the genome are an ...

Inside every human cell, 2 meters of DNA is crammed into a nucleus that is only one-hundredth of a millimeter in diameter.To ...

However, they still require proteins made from instructions in the cell nucleus to function properly and ... disrupt chloroplast development and structure, said Yoon, who is also a member of ...

This research provides a deeper understanding of how motorized processes shape chromosome structures and influence cellular functions ... interactions in the cell nucleus during interphase ...