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blastocidin

blastocidin is the alternative form of blasticidin.

Meaning of blasticidin

Noun

blasticidin (plural blasticidins)

  1. Any of a class of antibiotics used to select transformed cells in genetic engineering

Forms of blastocidin

pluralblastocidins

Questions about blastocidin

What is blastocidin the alternative form of?
Blastocidin is the alternative form of blasticidin.

Words near blastocidin in the dictionary

  1. blastobasid
  2. blastobasids
  3. blastocele
  4. blastoceles
  5. blastochyle
  6. blastocidin
  7. blastocidins
  8. blastoclad
  9. blastocladiaceous
  10. blastocladiomycete
  11. blastocladiomycetes

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