Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gapmer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gap-mer
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A chimeric, antisense oligonucleotide that contains a central block of deoxynucleotide monomers sufficiently long to induce ribonuclease cleavage

Etymology

From gap + -mer.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: gap

Inflected Forms

gapmers (plural)

Questions

What does gapmer mean?: A chimeric, antisense oligonucleotide that contains a central block of deoxynucleotide monomers sufficiently long to induce ribonuclease cleavage
Where does gapmer come from?: From gap + -mer.

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