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pentanucleotide

pentanucleotide noun: a codon containing five nucleotides.

Noun

pentanucleotide (plural pentanucleotides)

  1. A codon containing five nucleotides.
    • Additional diversity was recovered within the rbc spacer, where variations in the repeat number of a pentanucleotide microsatellite distinguished the haplotypes B1, B2 and B5 (Fig 3b ).2015 July 16, “Genes Left Behind: Climate Change Threatens Cryptic Genetic Diversity in the Canopy-Forming Seaweed Bifurcaria bifurcata”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of pentanucleotide

pluralpentanucleotides

Origin of pentanucleotide

From penta- + nucleotide.

Questions about pentanucleotide

What does pentanucleotide mean?
Pentanucleotide means a codon containing five nucleotides.
What part of speech is pentanucleotide?
Pentanucleotide is a noun.
What is the plural of pentanucleotide?
The plural of pentanucleotide is pentanucleotides.

Words near pentanucleotide in the dictionary

  1. pentanone
  2. pentanones
  3. pentanoxymethyl
  4. pentanoyl
  5. pentanuclear
  6. pentanucleotide
  7. pentanucleotides
  8. pentanucleotidic
  9. pentaose
  10. pentaoses
  11. pentaoxide

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