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pentapyrimidine

pentapyrimidine noun: a sequence of five pyrimidines in a nucleic acid.

Noun

pentapyrimidine (plural pentapyrimidines)

  1. A sequence of five pyrimidines in a nucleic acid
    • The enzyme recognizes a specific pentapyrimidine sequence of 5’-(C/T)CCTT↓-3’ and hydrolyzes the phosphodiester bond at the 3’-end of its recognition site [4 ].2015 October 1, “An Alternative Method to Facilitate cDNA Cloning for Expression Studies in Mammalian Cells by Introducing Positive Blue White Selection in Vaccinia Topoisomerase I-Mediated...

Forms of pentapyrimidine

pluralpentapyrimidines

Origin of pentapyrimidine

From penta- + pyrimidine.

Questions about pentapyrimidine

What does pentapyrimidine mean?
Pentapyrimidine means a sequence of five pyrimidines in a nucleic acid.
What part of speech is pentapyrimidine?
Pentapyrimidine is a noun.
What is the plural of pentapyrimidine?
The plural of pentapyrimidine is pentapyrimidines.

Words near pentapyrimidine in the dictionary

  1. pentapterous
  2. pentaptote
  3. pentaptotes
  4. pentaptych
  5. pentaptychs
  6. pentapyrimidine
  7. pentapyrimidines
  8. pentapyrrolic
  9. pentaquadrupole
  10. pentaquark
  11. pentaquarks

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