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Acronym of clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.
First known use, by meaning
- from 2002 Segments of bacteria and archaea DNA containing short repetitions of base sequences.
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CRISPR
Today it means: Segments of bacteria and archaea DNA containing short repetitions of base sequences. Full definition →
First used 2002