In most cases, codons that specify the same amino acid differ only at the third base.

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The second level of organization is the coiling of the 10-nm fiber of nucleosomes into a helical array to constitute the fiber of diameter 30 nm.

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30 nm compacts the DNA 40-fold. This structure of this fiber requires the histone tails and is stabilized by linker histones.

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This 30-nm fiber is further folded, results in 1000-fold compaction in euchromatin in interphase chromatin and in mitotic chromosomes to achieve an overall 10,000- fold compaction in euchromatin.

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Heterochromatin generally maintains 10,000-fold compaction in both interphase and mitosis after 30 nm.

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Chromatin contains DNA, Histones, Nonhistone Proteins and RNA. RNA polymerase is a prominent nonhistone protein

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Individual nucleosomes can be obtained by treating chromatin with the endonuclease micrococcal nuclease (MNase), which cuts the DNA between nucleosomes, a region known as linker DNA.