The plasmid and the nucleoid are bacterial components that contain DNA.
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Plasmid
//ˈplæzmɪd//
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24 translations across 21 languages.
Asturian
1 entries- plásmidu noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Catalan
1 entries- plasmidi noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 質粒 /质粒 noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Czech
1 entries- plazmid noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Dutch
1 entries- plasmide noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Esperanto
1 entries- plasmido noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Finnish
1 entries- plasmidi noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
French
1 entries- plasmide noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
German
1 entries- Plasmid noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Hungarian
1 entries- plazmid noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Italian
2 entries- plasmide noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
- plasmidio noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Kazakh
2 entries- плазмид noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
- плазмида noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- plasmid noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- plasmid noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Polish
1 entries- plazmid noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Portuguese
2 entries- plasmídeo noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
- plasmídio noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Romanian
1 entries- plasmidă noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Russian
1 entries- плазми́да noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Spanish
1 entries- plásmido noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Swedish
1 entries- plasmid noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
Turkish
1 entries- plazmit noun (loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes)
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These discussions have left a plethora of terms adrift: pangenes, bioblasts, plasmagenes, plastogenes, chondriogenes, cytogenes and proviruses, which have lost their original utility owing to the accretion of vague or contradictory connotations. At the risk of adding to this list, I propose plasmid as a generic term for any extrachromosomal hereditary determinant.
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This is how the F (for "fertility") plasmid, which forms the basis of a lot of classical E. coli genetics, is transferred from one cell to another.
Source: wiktionary
Bacteria are happy to absorb little rings of DNA called plasmids and adopt them as their own.
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