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.
- premandibular
- Premarin
- premarital
- premaritally
- premaster
- prematch
- prematerial
- prematuration
- premature
- premature ageing
- prematured
- premature ejaculation
- prematurely
- prematureness
- premature pubarche
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- premaxilla
- premaxillary
- premaxillo-maxillary
- pre-med
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