Usually means: Proteins organizing DNA into chromatin.
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  1. histone: Merriam-Webster
  2. histone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. histone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. histone: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Histone, histone: Wordnik
  7. histone: Wiktionary
  8. histone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. histone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  11. histone: Dictionary.com
  12. Histone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. histone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. histone: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Histone: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. histone: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
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  10. Histone: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (histone)

noun:  (biochemistry) Any of various simple water-soluble proteins that are rich in the basic amino acids lysine and arginine and are complexed with DNA in the nucleosomes of eukaryotic chromatin.

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