{"id":7492,"date":"2019-05-22T15:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/chromatin\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:57:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:57:28","slug":"chromatin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/chromatin\/","title":{"rendered":"Chromatin"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Located in the nucleus of the cell, it is a complex of genetic material consisting of DNA and proteins that condense to form chromosomes in eukaryotic cell division. &nbsp;Sperm chromatin is different. &nbsp;During spermatogenesis, the chromatin of the male germ cells (spermatogonia) are remodelled into a more tightly packaged and compact structure, a process associated with the cessation of transcription and involving nuclear protein exchange. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cell\">Cell<\/a>, <a href=\"chromatid\">Chromatid<\/a>, <a href=\"chromosome\">Chromosome<\/a>, <a href=\"dna_-deoxyribonucleic_acid-\">DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)<\/a>, <a href=\"eukaryote_cell_-or_organism-\">Eukaryote cell (or organism)<\/a>, <a href=\"methylation\">Methylation<\/a>, <a href=\"nucleus_-of_a_cell-\">Nucleus (of a cell)<\/a>, <a href=\"proteins\">Proteins<\/a>, <a href=\"spermatogonia\">Spermatogonia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located in the nucleus of the cell, it is a complex of genetic material consisting of DNA and proteins that condense to form chromosomes in eukaryotic cell division. &nbsp;Sperm chromatin is different. &nbsp;During spermatogenesis, the chromatin of the male germ cells (spermatogonia) are remodelled into a more tightly packaged and compact structure, a process associated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/chromatin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chromatin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}