Medical Definition of Minichromosome
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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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