Heterochromatin: The part of the chromonema that remains tightly coiled and condensed during interphase and thus stains readily. SYN: heteropyknotic chromatin.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Heterochromatin: regions of the genome that are permanently in a highly condensed condition and are not genetically expressed.
Source: CRISP
Heterochromatin: The portion of chromosome material that remains condensed and is transcriptionally inactive during INTERPHASE.
Source: MeSH 2007
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - CRISP
Source: CRISP
The following list attempts to classify Heterochromatin into categories where each line is subset of the next.
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