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Medical Definition of Minichromosome

1. 1. Certain viruses complex with the histones of the host eukaryote cells they have infected to form a chromatin structure resembling a small chromosome. 2. A plasmid that contains a chromosomal origin of replication. Origin: Gr. Soma = body This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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