EPISOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does episome mean? 

• EPISOME (noun)
  The noun EPISOME has 1 sense:

1. DNA that is not incorporated into the genome but is replicated together with the genome (especially in bacterial cells)

  Familiarity information: EPISOME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPISOME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

DNA that is not incorporated into the genome but is replicated together with the genome (especially in bacterial cells)

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("episome" is a kind of...):

deoxyribonucleic acid; desoxyribonucleic acid; DNA ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information)