Extragenomic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Describing any inherited genetic information that is not part of an organism's genome not-comparable

    "Plasmids are small circles of extragenomic DNA that exists and replicates independently from the bacterial chromosome."

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"Plasmids are small circles of extragenomic DNA that exists and replicates independently from the bacterial chromosome."

Etymology

From extra- + genomic.

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