Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

protospacer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pro-to-spac-er
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A particular DNA motif.

Example Sentences

"Genomic DNA was extracted from parental and mutant cell lines and used as the template to amplify fragments of 200 to 1,500 bp containing the protospacer regions chosen for Cas9 targeting of the TcPFR1, TcPFR2, and TcGP72 genes."

Etymology

From proto- + spacer.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: proto

Inflected Forms

protospacers (plural)

Questions

What does protospacer mean?: A particular DNA motif.
Where does protospacer come from?: From proto- + spacer.

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