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While Working on Drosophila, You Find a New Mutant Strain

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While working on Drosophila, you find a new mutant strain with an abnormal histone H3 gene. This novel histone mutant is predicted to cause the nucleosomes to bind an extra 15 bp of DNA compared to wild type. If you digest isolated chromatin with a nuclease to release the core nucleosomes, what size DNA fragments would you expect from wild-type and mutant flies?

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