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morpholino

morpholino noun: a structural analog of natural nucleic acid used to modify gene expression, in which the ribose or deoxyribose rings of nucleic acids are replaced with morpholine rings and the phosphodiester intersubunit linkages of nucleic acids are replaced with phosphorodiamidate linkages.

Noun

morpholino (plural morpholinos)

  1. A structural analog of natural nucleic acid used to modify gene expression, in which the ribose or deoxyribose rings of nucleic acids are replaced with morpholine rings and the phosphodiester intersubunit linkages of nucleic acids are replaced with phosphorodiamidate linkages.

Forms of morpholino

pluralmorpholinos

Questions about morpholino

What does morpholino mean?
Morpholino means a structural analog of natural nucleic acid used to modify gene expression, in which the ribose or deoxyribose rings of nucleic acids are replaced with morpholine rings and the phosphodiester intersubunit linkages of nucleic acids are replaced with phosphorodiamidate linkages.
What part of speech is morpholino?
Morpholino is a noun.
What is the plural of morpholino?
The plural of morpholino is morpholinos.

Words near morpholino in the dictionary

  1. morpholide
  2. morpholides
  3. morpholine
  4. morpholines
  5. morpholinium
  6. morpholino
  7. morpholinone
  8. morpholinones
  9. morpholinos
  10. morpholinosydnonimine
  11. morpholinyl

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