Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

extragenomic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-trage-nom-ic
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Describing any inherited genetic information that is not part of an organism's genome

Example Sentences

"Plasmids are small circles of extragenomic DNA that exists and replicates independently from the bacterial chromosome."

Etymology

From extra- + genomic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: extra

Inflected Forms

extra-genomic (alternative)

Questions

What does extragenomic mean?: Describing any inherited genetic information that is not part of an organism's genome
Where does extragenomic come from?: From extra- + genomic.

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