Histones play a role in packaging DNA into nucleosomes, and they are the main protein in chromatin. In addition, gene expression can be regulated by histones. Genes that are silenced are bound very tightly to a lot of histones, while those that are active are not. Modifications to histones are referred to as the histone code.
Definition of bolshevism. 1 : the doctrine or program of the Bolsheviks advocating violent overthrow of capitalism.
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki, were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The RSDLP was a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1898 in Minsk in Belarus to unite the various revolutionary organisations of the Russian Empire into one party. In the Second Party Congress vote, the Bolsheviks won on the majority of important issues, hence their name. Th