What is the nucleoid?

What is meant by the term "genophore"?

Why is the nucleoid necessary?

What is typical of bacterial genomes?

What are the features of a plasmid?(7)

Describe eukaryotic nuclear genomes

Describe Eukaryotic chromosomes

Compare eukaroytic genome/prokaryotic genome (5)

What is the composition and function of a mitotic chromosome?(4)

Draw a chromosome

Name the 5 relevant histone proteins

What do all histone proteins have in common? (5)

What is the packing ratio of DNA during mitosis?

How is compression achieved during mitosis?

Describe nucleosome structure

Draw the structure of a nucleosome

What is the role of Histone H1?

How is a higher order structure achieved?(3)

What are mitotic chromosomes?

Draw a schematic diagram of this compression

How can eukaryotic gene expression be regulated?

What does acetylation do?

Why are unmodified histone proteins less likely to lead to gene expression?