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proheads

proheads is the plural of prohead.

Meaning of prohead

Noun

prohead (plural proheads)

  1. A procapsid.
    • The concatemers are processed into mature chromosomes with cohesive ends, and packaged into prohead shells, during virion assembly.2015 December 4, “DNA Packaging Specificity of Bacteriophage N15 with an Excursion into the Genetics of a Cohesive End Mismatch”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about proheads

What is proheads the plural of?
Proheads is the plural of prohead.

Words near proheads in the dictionary

  1. prohaptoral
  2. prohaptors
  3. Prohaska
  4. Prohaskas
  5. prohead
  6. proheads
  7. prohedonic
  8. prohedria
  9. proheme
  10. prohemes
  11. prohemocyte

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