"intergenic spacer" meaning in English

See intergenic spacer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: intergenic spacers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} intergenic spacer (plural intergenic spacers)
  1. (genetics) A non-transcribed length of DNA separating repeated lengths of DNA containing genes encoding ribosomal rRNA with transcribed spacers. Categories (topical): Genetics Synonyms: spacer DNA
    Sense id: en-intergenic_spacer-en-noun-XR21yUcl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "intergenic spacers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "intergenic spacer (plural intergenic spacers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Genetics",
          "orig": "en:Genetics",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A non-transcribed length of DNA separating repeated lengths of DNA containing genes encoding ribosomal rRNA with transcribed spacers."
      ],
      "id": "en-intergenic_spacer-en-noun-XR21yUcl",
      "links": [
        [
          "genetics",
          "genetics"
        ],
        [
          "DNA",
          "DNA"
        ],
        [
          "gene",
          "gene"
        ],
        [
          "ribosomal",
          "ribosomal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(genetics) A non-transcribed length of DNA separating repeated lengths of DNA containing genes encoding ribosomal rRNA with transcribed spacers."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "spacer DNA"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "genetics",
        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "intergenic spacer"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "intergenic spacers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "intergenic spacer (plural intergenic spacers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Genetics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A non-transcribed length of DNA separating repeated lengths of DNA containing genes encoding ribosomal rRNA with transcribed spacers."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "genetics",
          "genetics"
        ],
        [
          "DNA",
          "DNA"
        ],
        [
          "gene",
          "gene"
        ],
        [
          "ribosomal",
          "ribosomal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(genetics) A non-transcribed length of DNA separating repeated lengths of DNA containing genes encoding ribosomal rRNA with transcribed spacers."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "genetics",
        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "spacer DNA"
    }
  ],
  "word": "intergenic spacer"
}

Download raw JSONL data for intergenic spacer meaning in English (1.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (eaa6b66 and a709d4b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.