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Ch. 13 - Regulation of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes

Chapter 13, Problem 10

The term heterochromatin refers to heavily condensed regions of chromosomes that are largely devoid of genes. Since few genes exist there, these regions almost never decondense for transcription. At what point during the cell cycle would you expect to observe the decondensation of heterochromatic regions? Why?

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