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A small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication
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plasmid
Word definitions for plasmid in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context cytology English) A loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from and replicates independently of the chromosomes, most commonly found in bacterium, but also in archaeans and eukaryote cells, and used in genetic engineering as a vector for ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plasmid \Plas"mid\, n. (Molecular genetics) A piece of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1952, from plasma + -id .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A plasmid is a small DNA molecule within a cell that is physically separated from a chromosomal DNA and can replicate independently. They are most commonly found in bacteria as small circular, double-stranded DNA molecules; however, plasmids are sometimes ...
Usage examples of plasmid.
Wearily he began assembling the components of another plasmid from the DNA fragments he had in storage.
Now, somewhere along the line, when these guys were trying to design a plasmid to change covalent chlorine to ionic, they had to consider the possibility of making it go the other way.
A number of different antibiotics have been shown to promote plasmid transfer between different bacteria, and it might even be considered that some antibiotics are bacterial pheromones.
The plasmid was accompanied by a transcription factor which would activate it.
Creating the viruses would be a tricky but not impossible problem in plasmid engineering.
Frederic Bushman, 2002, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, is an important synopsis of what is currently known about DNA transfer through viruses, transposons, plasmids, etc.
Each family of linear plasmids contains variations on a set of closely associated genes, like sentences built from the same small vocabulary, but there are also rogue genes distributed randomly among all the families.
They had his genome in their records, but it would take a few days to synthesize the collection of repair strands and clip them onto plasmids, and clone millions more.
DNA, built from scratch from the appropriate amino acids, then multiplied by polymerase chain reactions, were spliced into bacterial plasmids, which acted as vectors to transmit the recombinant genes to the nucleus of the egg itself.
Put together some chlorine-processing plasmids and implanted them in a particular bug called Escherichiacoli.
They not only share DNA among members of their own species, through conjugation and transduction, but they will encode DNA in plasmids and transposons and packet-mail it to other species.
Science News Service deduced his interest in plasmids from his purchase of olephages.
Some plasmids are capable of splicing themselves seamlessly into a chromosome.
A virulent strain of staphylococcus aureus has incorporated endozine-resistant plasmids from enterococcus.
Science News Service deduced his interest in plasmids from his purchase of olephages.