Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yeast artificial chromosome

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English

Syllables: yeast- ar-ti-fi-cial chro-mo-some
IPA

42

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

7

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A genetically engineered chromosome derived from the DNA of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is then ligated into a bacterial plasmid.

Inflected Forms

yeast artificial chromosomes (plural) YAC (abbreviation)

Questions

What does yeast artificial chromosome mean?: A genetically engineered chromosome derived from the DNA of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is then ligated into a bacterial plasmid.

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