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morpholinos

morpholinos is the plural of morpholino.

Meaning of morpholino

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.

Questions about morpholinos

What is morpholinos the plural of?
Morpholinos is the plural of morpholino.

Words near morpholinos in the dictionary

  1. morpholines
  2. morpholinium
  3. morpholino
  4. morpholinone
  5. morpholinones
  6. morpholinos
  7. morpholinosydnonimine
  8. morpholinyl
  9. morpholinylthiambutene
  10. morpholithogenesis
  11. morphologenesis

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