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nucleoid

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nu·cle·oid  (nkl-oid, ny-)
n.
The part of a bacterium or virus that contains nucleic acid and is analogous in function to the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell.


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4) EBV shares the classic structural features of the other herpes viruses: it is enveloped, contains a nucleoid and capsid, and has a linear double-stranded DNA genome, which is contained within the nucleoid structure.
Cannon, and Sabine Heinhorst, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406 To avoid the potential of a lethal effect from constitutive expression of an RNAi construct in Arabidopsis thaliana, a chemically inducible vector was utilized to study the effects of a gene knockout for the plastid nucleoid protein DCP68.
Previous work in our lab had characterized an abundant nucleoid protein (DCP68) from plastids of cultured soybean cells that is able to compact DNA in vitro.
 
 
 
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