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zinc fingers

zinc fingers is the plural of zinc finger.

Meaning of zinc finger

Noun

zinc finger (plural zinc fingers)

  1. A structure characterized by the coordination of one or more zinc ions, found in some proteins, that typically binds to specific sequences of DNA and regulates genes.

Questions about zinc fingers

What is zinc fingers the plural of?
Zinc fingers is the plural of zinc finger.

Words near zinc fingers in the dictionary

  1. zinc blooms
  2. zinc carbonate
  3. zinc carbonates
  4. zinc chloride
  5. zinc finger
  6. zinc fingers
  7. zinc green
  8. zinc greens
  9. zinc group
  10. zinc oxide
  11. zinc protoporphyrin

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