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Agriculture · Q450

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 450

Q450

Folded fiber model of chromosome organisation was proposed by

A.
Flemming
B.
Kornberg
C.
DuPraw
Answer
D.
Balbiani

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Folded fiber model of chromosome organisation was proposed by DuPraw.
Based on an electron microscopic examination of the chromosome, DUPRAW (1968) proposed a “folded fiber model” of the metaphase chromosome structure.
According to this, the fundamental elements of the chromosomes are long DNA-protein fibers with diameters of about 23 nm.