nuclear heterochromatin

id: GO:0005720
name: nuclear heterochromatin
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A condensed form of chromatin, occurring in the nucleus during interphase, that stains strongly with basophilic dyes. The DNA of heterochromatin is typically replicated at a later stage in the cell-division cycle than euchromatin.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0001739sex chromatin
GO:0005724nuclear telomeric heterochromatin
GO:0005725intercalary heterochromatin
GO:0031618nuclear centromeric heterochromatin

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0000790nuclear chromatin
GO:0000792heterochromatin