Extragenomic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Extragenomic is an adjective meaning (genetics) Describing any inherited genetic information that is not part of an organism's genome.
Meaning
(genetics) Describing any inherited genetic information that is not part of an organism's genome.
Example Sentences
Plasmids are small circles of extragenomic DNA that exists and replicates independently from the bacterial chromosome.
Word Forms
- extra-genomic
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include extragenetic, extratranscriptomic, exochromosomal, postgenomic, digenomic, multiexon.
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