Size Duel deck / The body, cells and particles
Nucleosome
Length: diameter of the bead
about 11 nm
Range used for fair duels: 10 nm to 12.1 nm.
A bead of proteins with DNA wound round it: the way cells pack their DNA.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source.
“a beadlike structure 11 nm in diameter”Community College of Baltimore County — original microbiology teaching text by GaryE.Kaiser: source, retrieved 2026-10-29; quote re-found by the server check
“The nucleosome core structure is approximately 11 nm in diameter.”Western Oregon University Chemistry — Biochemistry:Defining Life at the Molecular Level,chapter4: source, retrieved 2026-10-29; quote re-found by the server check
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