But
the way archaea DNA twists around histones isn't identical to the coils of DNA seen in eukaryotes.
Not exact matches
The researchers saw that
archaea DNA coils around the histones, similar to the
way it does in eukaryotes.
WOUND UP
Archaea microbes wrap their DNA (represented in yellow) around proteins called histones (purple) akin to the
way plants and animals do.
Unlike bacteria, some
archaea also contain histones, but researchers weren't sure whether these microbes spool DNA around the protein bobbins the
way eukaryotes do.
Most biologists still favor the standard view that the universal ancestor, already a quite sophisticated organism that had come a long
way since the origin of life, first branched into the bacteria and the
archaea.