beads on a string
The DNA coils around the ellipsoid approximately 1 turns or 166 base pairs before proceeding to the next.
The DNA the histone proteins arranged in this formation are referred to as a nucleosome.
The stretch of DMA between the beads varies in length from 14 to 100 base pairs.
H1 appears to associate with the linker regions to enable the nucleosome to supercoil
When folding of the structure reaches a maximum, the chromosomes can be visualized