Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

schizomer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: schizomer
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of restriction enzyme.

Example Sentences

"Bsil and BpulOI belong to the class II restrictases, but have unusual recognition sites, related to the palindromic sequence CTCGAG (Xhol and its schizomers) and respectively, CCTNAGC (Saul and its schizomers)."
"For cleavage of picornavirus polyproteins, such initial nucleation raises no problem for the first schizomer in the sequence (structural protein)."
"The digested DNA was extracted by phenol/chloroform and divided into two equal aliquots, one of which was treated with HpaII and the other with its schizomer MspI [39]."

Etymology

From schizo- + -mer.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: schizo
Suffix: mer

Inflected Forms

schizomers (plural)

Derived Forms

isoschizomer neoschizomer

Synonyms

restriction enzyme

Questions

What does schizomer mean?: Synonym of restriction enzyme.
Where does schizomer come from?: From schizo- + -mer.

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