Stomachs of flesh-eating flies carry the DNA of animals in remote rainforests.
Stomachs of flesh-eating flies carry the DNA of animals in remote rainforests.
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Archaea packages DNA around histones in a similar way to eukaryotes, suggesting that fitting a large genome into a small space was not the original role of chromatin.