A nucleoid gently released from Escherichia coli appears as 30-100 tightly wound loops, each defined by anchoring
A) histones.
B) histone-like proteins.
C) transcription factors.
D) rho factors.
E) sigma factors.

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Histone-like proteins, not histones, form the tightly wound loops in bacterial nucleoids. Transcription factors, rho factors, and sigma factors are not involved in nucleoid organization.

A Nucleoid Gently Released from Escherichia Coli Appears as 30-100