pentanucleotide
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Etymology edit
penta- + nucleotide
Noun edit
pentanucleotide (plural pentanucleotides)
- (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], :
- 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 ).