retrotranscriptase
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "DNA microarrays are particularly useful tools in this aspect: after collecting RNA samples from either tissue or cell cultures, cDNA is produced via a retrotranscriptase and hybridized with DNA probes attached to the surface of a manufactured chip."
Etymology
From retro- + transcriptase.