parasitic DNA
Molecular Biol.
noun
A region of DNA in a eukaryotic genome that has no apparent function other than perpetuating itself.
Origin
1970s.
- cytocentrifuge
- cytochalasin
- cytochemical
- cytochemist
- cytochemistry
- cytochrome
- cytocidal
- cytocidally
- cytode
- cytodiagnosis
- cytodifferentiation
- cytogamont
- cytogamous
- cytogamy
- cytogenesis
- cytogenetic
- cytogenetical
- cytogenetically
- cytogeneticist
- cytogenetics
- cytogenic
- cytogenous
- cytogeny
- cytoid
- cytokeratin