replicon

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8

Definition of replicon

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A DNA molecule or a region of DNA that replicates as an individual unit. A replicon may be, for instance, a chromosome, a plasmid or a phage.
    “During cell division there is a probability that either or both of the master replicons will misreplicate and one of the daughter cells will be missing a master copy.”

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Etymology

From replic(ate) + -on.

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