open reading frame
Molecular Biol.
noun
A sequence of nucleotide triplets that begins with an initiation codon but has no a termination codon, and is therefore a possible polypeptide coding sequence; abbreviated ORF.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in Nucleic Acids Research.
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