The biological process of converting active chromatin into tightly packed, inactive heterochromatin.
From heterochromatin + -ization (process of becoming). Modern molecular biology term describing dynamic chromatin remodeling mechanisms.
Your cells constantly perform heterochromatization to silence genes they don't need—it's like filing away old documents instead of deleting them, so they can be unfiled if needed later.
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