text: structure and function? what is the strucutre and function of the chromatin in the animal cell ? gotta love wiki  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chromatin  chromatin is dna + proteins that are involved in the condensation of dna (making dna take less space). each unit is called a nucleosome which is about 1.65 turns of dna plus 8 histones (2 of each different 4 subunits). the complexity increases in stages...