pentanucleotide

English

Etymology

penta- +‎ nucleotide

Noun

pentanucleotide (plural pentanucleotides)

1. (genetics) A codon containing five nucleotides.
   • 2015 July 16, “Genes Left Behind: Climate Change Threatens Cryptic Genetic Diversity in the Canopy-Forming Seaweed Bifurcaria bifurcata”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Additional diversity was recovered within the rbc spacer, where variations in the repeat number of a pentanucleotide microsatellite distinguished the haplotypes B1, B2 and B5 (Fig 3b ).

Related terms

• pentanucleotidic