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octanucleotide

octanucleotide noun: a codon containing eight nucleotides.

Noun

octanucleotide (plural octanucleotides)

  1. A codon containing eight nucleotides.

Forms of octanucleotide

pluraloctanucleotides

Origin of octanucleotide

From octa- + nucleotide.

Questions about octanucleotide

What does octanucleotide mean?
Octanucleotide means a codon containing eight nucleotides.
What part of speech is octanucleotide?
Octanucleotide is a noun.
What is the plural of octanucleotide?
The plural of octanucleotide is octanucleotides.

Words near octanucleotide in the dictionary

  1. octant
  2. octantal
  3. octantimonide
  4. octants
  5. octanucleate
  6. octanucleotide
  7. octanucleotides
  8. octaose
  9. octaoses
  10. octaoxide
  11. octaoxides

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