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pentanucleotide

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English

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Etymology

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From penta- +‎ nucleotide.

Noun

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pentanucleotide (plural pentanucleotides)

  1. (genetics) A codon containing five nucleotides.
    • 2015 July 16, “Genes Left Behind: Climate Change Threatens Cryptic Genetic Diversity in the Canopy-Forming Seaweed Bifurcaria bifurcata”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      Additional diversity was recovered within the rbc spacer, where variations in the repeat number of a pentanucleotide microsatellite distinguished the haplotypes B1, B2 and B5 (Fig 3b ).
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