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plasmids
n. (plural of plasmid English)
Usage examples of "plasmids".
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.