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Medical Definition of Cryptic plasmid
1. A plasmid which has no apparent effect on the phenotype of its host cell and has no genes other than the ones needed for itself to replicate and spread to other cells. (09 Oct 1997)
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1. A plasmid which has no apparent effect on the phenotype of its host cell and has no genes other than the ones needed for itself to replicate and spread to other cells. (09 Oct 1997)