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short interdispersed element

A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | 184 words | Copyright

short interdispersed element (SINE) A DNA sequence, of less than 500 base pairs with a copy number over 100 000, that occurs throughout the genome rather than in a tandem array.

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