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GFP

GFP is the initialism of green fluorescent protein.

Meaning of green fluorescent protein

Noun

green fluorescent protein (plural green fluorescent proteins)

  1. Any of a class of protein produced by bioluminescent jellyfish of the genus Aequorea, that is used in biological research to trace the biosynthesis and movement of proteins in living organisms

Forms of GFP

pluralGFPs

Questions about GFP

What is GFP the initialism of?
GFP is the initialism of green fluorescent protein.

Words near GFP in the dictionary

  1. GFLV
  2. GFM
  3. GFO
  4. gFOBT
  5. GForms
  6. GFP
  7. GFPs
  8. GFR
  9. GFRP
  10. GFRPs
  11. GFRs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: GFP (page history and authors); green fluorescent protein (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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