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bicoids

bicoids is the plural of bicoid.

Meaning of bicoid

Noun

bicoid (plural bicoids)

  1. A gene, in Drosophila and related flies, that specifies which end of an egg will be the anterior and become the fly's head by setting up a concentration gradient of the Bicoid protein.

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Noun capitalized: Bicoids

Bicoids

  1. (plural) plural of Bicoid

Questions about bicoids

What is bicoids the plural of?
Bicoids is the plural of bicoid.
What part of speech is bicoids?
Bicoids is a noun.

Words near bicoids in the dictionary

  1. bicoastals
  2. Bicocca
  3. bicoherence
  4. bicoherences
  5. bicoid
  6. bicoids
  7. Bicol
  8. Bicol Peninsula
  9. Bicol Region
  10. Bicol River
  11. Bicolana

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