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YAC

YAC is the initialism of yeast artificial chromosome.

Meaning of yeast artificial chromosome

Noun

yeast artificial chromosome (plural yeast artificial chromosomes, abbreviation YAC)

  1. A genetically engineered chromosome derived from the DNA of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is then ligated into a bacterial plasmid.

Questions about YAC

What is YAC the initialism of?
YAC is the initialism of yeast artificial chromosome.

Words near YAC in the dictionary

  1. yabus
  2. yabusame
  3. Yabut
  4. Yabutian
  5. Yabuts
  6. YAC
  7. yacal
  8. yacals
  9. Yacapsin
  10. yacare
  11. yacare caiman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: YAC (page history and authors); yeast artificial chromosome (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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