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The most highly condensed form of interphase chromatin is called heterochromatin. It was first observed in the light microscope in the 1930s as discrete, strongly staining regions within the mass of chromatin. Heterochromatin typically makes up about ____ of an interphase chromosome, and in mammalian chromosomes, it is concentrated around the centromere region and in the telomeres at the ends of the chromosomes.