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"PLASMIDS" is a plural of: plasmid. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Any extrachromosomal hereditary determinant. Plasmids are self-replicating circular molecules of DNA that are found in a variety of bacterial, archaeal, fungal, algal, and plant species. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PLASMIDS |
| Specialty definitions using "PLASMIDS": Colicin Factors, Cosmids ♦ Drug Resistance, Microbial ♦ Electroporation ♦ Genetic Vectors ♦ Hemolysin Factors ♦ Lactose Factors ♦ ori region ♦ R Factors, Replication Origin, Ri plasmid, root-inducing plasmid. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The DNA sequence of B. burgdorferi type strain B31 was published in 1997 and contains a 950 kilobase linear chromosome, 9 linear plasmids, and 12 circular plasmids. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PLASMIDS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 95.39% of the time. "PLASMIDS" is used about 152 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 95.39% | 145 | 26,217 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.61% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 152 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
plasmids | 18 |
cryptic plasmids | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PLASMIDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | plasmider (paragene). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | plasmides. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Plasmide (paragene), Plasmagene (paragene). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asmidsplay плазмид. (various references) plasmidios, plásmidos (paragene), plásmides (paragene). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-m-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: dismals, plasmid, salpids. | |
-2 letters: dipsas, dismal, limpas, milpas, missal, passim, plaids, plasms, psalms, sadism, salmis, salpid, spails. | |
-3 letters: amids, amiss, apsis, aspis, damps, dials, lamps, lapis, limas, limpa, limps, lisps, maids, mails, milpa, padis, pails, palms, pimas, plaid, plasm, psalm, sadis, saids, sails, salmi, salps, samps, sapid, sials, silds, simas, simps, sisal, slams. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-m-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: mispleads, paludisms, plasmoids. | |
+2 letters: psalmodies. | |
+3 letters: bipedalisms. | |
+4 letters: diplomatists, slipstreamed. | |
+5 letters: displacements, palindromists, spasmodically. | |
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