Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ter-mi-nal deoxynu-cleotidyl -trans-ferase
IPA

57

Scrabble Score

35

Letters

6

Syllables

16

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a specialized DNA polymerase enabling junctional diversity, expressed in immature, pre-B, pre-T lymphoid cells, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma cells.

Inflected Forms

terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferases (plural) TdT (alternative)

Synonyms

DNA nucleotidylexotransferase terminal transferase

Questions

What does terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase mean?: a specialized DNA polymerase enabling junctional diversity, expressed in immature, pre-B, pre-T lymphoid cells, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma cells.

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