replication origin
Biology
noun
A specific site on a chromosome where initiator proteins can bind to allow DNA replication to begin.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
- multispecies
- multispectral
- multispectral scanner
- multispicular
- multi-spindle
- multispiral
- multi-spired
- multisport
- multisports
- multistability
- multistable
- multistage
- multistaged
- multistaging
- multistandard
- multi-starrer
- multistart
- multistate
- multi-station
- multi-stemmed
- multistep
- multistorey
- multistrand
- multistranded
- multistratal