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THE major chemical components of a chromosome so far described are two types of protein and deoxyribonucleic acid. The amounts of the two types of chromosomal protein vary considerably between the tissues of one animal1. Deoxyribonucleic acid content is much less variable, however, and appears2–4 to be approximately constant in the nuclei of the same species. However, recent work by Leuchtenberger and Schrader5 indicates that the quantities are likely to vary in secretory tissues.
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INAMDAR, N., WAGH, U. Amounts of Deoxyribonucleic Acid in the Silk Glands of the Spider Nephila maculata, Fabr., 1763. Nature 183, 1541 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831541a0
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