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Describe the "folded-fiber" model of the mitotic chromosome.

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The folded-fiber model describes how a chromatin fiber becomes a mitotic chromosome. Ernest DuPraw proposed the folded-fiber model after he had made many observations of metaphase chromosomes.
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