Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

transposome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: trans-po-some
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The set of genetic transpositions (or of the transposases and transposons) in an organism.

Example Sentences

"Chilamakuri et al. (2014) found that the Nextera kit had increased coverage of high GC content areas as the result of altered bias in the transposome technology used during fragmentation, decreasing its overall uniformity; however, recent changes to the protocol in the new versions may have improved this."

Etymology

From transpose + -ome.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: transpose

Inflected Forms

transposomes (plural)

Derived Forms

retrotransposome retrotransposomal

Frequently Paired Words

transposomal transposomics

Questions

What does transposome mean?: The set of genetic transpositions (or of the transposases and transposons) in an organism.
Where does transposome come from?: From transpose + -ome.

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