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protoviruses

protoviruses is the plural of protovirus.

Meaning of protovirus

Noun

protovirus (plural protoviruses)

  1. A DNA sequence capable of mutating into an oncogenic virus, proposed as a hypothesis to explain the origin of ribodeoxyviruses as arising from normal cellular components.

Questions about protoviruses

What is protoviruses the plural of?
Protoviruses is the plural of protovirus.

Words near protoviruses in the dictionary

  1. protovertebral
  2. protovertebrate
  3. protovertebrates
  4. protoviral
  5. protovirus
  6. protoviruses
  7. protoword
  8. protowords
  9. protowriting
  10. protoxid
  11. protoxide

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