recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid

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   genetically engineered DNA made by recombining fragments of DNA from different organisms

   Synonymsrecombinant DNA

   Broaderdeoxyribonucleic acid

Questions about recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid

What does recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid mean?

recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid means "genetically engineered DNA made by recombining fragments of DNA from different organisms".

What is another word for recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid?

Close synonyms include recombinant DNA. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid a common word?

recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.