Nonlong
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Not long. not-comparable
"Today we can identify several consortia of key players that coordinate and organize the genetic content compositions of host organisms: endogenous viruses and defectives, transposons, retrotransposons, long terminal repeats, nonlong terminal repeats, long interspersed nuclear elements, short interspersed nuclear elements, group I introns, group II introns, phages, and plasmids are currently investigated examples that use genomic DNA as their preferred living habitat."
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More examples"Today we can identify several consortia of key players that coordinate and organize the genetic content compositions of host organisms: endogenous viruses and defectives, transposons, retrotransposons, long terminal repeats, nonlong terminal repeats, long interspersed nuclear elements, short interspersed nuclear elements, group I introns, group II introns, phages, and plasmids are currently investigated examples that use genomic DNA as their preferred living habitat."
Etymology
From non- + long.
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