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ribotyping

ribotyping is the present participle and gerund of ribotype.

Meaning of ribotype

Verb

ribotype (third-person singular simple present ribotypes, present participle ribotyping, simple past and past participle ribotyped)

  1. (transitive) To analyse the ribotypes of (an organism or population)

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Noun

ribotyping (uncountable)

  1. The analysis of restriction fragment length polymorphism of rRNA genes in order to differentiate between species etc.

Questions about ribotyping

What does ribotyping mean?
Ribotyping means the analysis of restriction fragment length polymorphism of rRNA genes in order to differentiate between species etc.
What is ribotyping the present participle and gerund of?
Ribotyping is the present participle and gerund of ribotype.
What part of speech is ribotyping?
Ribotyping is a noun.

Words near ribotyping in the dictionary

  1. ribotransferases
  2. ribotype
  3. ribotyped
  4. ribotypes
  5. ribotypic
  6. ribotyping
  7. ribovanadyl
  8. riboviral
  9. ribovirus
  10. riboviruses
  11. ribozymatic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ribotyping (page history and authors); ribotype (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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