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CHROMOSOMES are molecular aggregates. An ultimate objective, both of cytology and of genetics, must therefore be to interpret their findings in terms of the molecular structure of chromosomes. If, as there seems reason to suppose, chromosomes consist substantially of aggregates of protein molecules in association with nucleic acid, the properties of such aggregates must inevitably determine the behaviour of chromosomes in general, the characteristics of individual chromosomes being attributable to the possession of individual protein patterns.
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WRINCH, D. Chromosome Behaviour in Terms of Protein Pattern. Nature 134, 978–979 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134978a0
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