Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

somatic cell nuclear transfer

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English

Syllables: so-mat-ic -cel-l nu-cle-ar -trans-fer
IPA

37

Scrabble Score

26

Letters

9

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

technique used in genetic engineering in which a donor nucleus from a somatic cell is implanted into an enucleated oocyte (egg cell) to achieve cloning (either reproductive or therapeutic)

Inflected Forms

somatic cell nuclear transfers (plural)

Synonyms

SCNT somatic cell nuclear transplantation nuclear transplantation

Questions

What does somatic cell nuclear transfer mean?: technique used in genetic engineering in which a donor nucleus from a somatic cell is implanted into an enucleated oocyte (egg cell) to achieve cloning (either reproductive or therapeutic)

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