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Scaffold At Biology Glossary

What is it? The eukaryotic chromosome structure remaining when DNA and histones have been removed; made from nonhistone proteins. The central framework of a chromosome to which the DNA solenoid is attached as loops; composed largely of topoisomerase.

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