Etymology

ribonucleoprotein

Today it means: Any nucleoprotein that contains RNA. Full definition →

English nucleoprotein ← Latin nucleu ← Proto-Italic *knuks
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The story

  1. Englishribo-
  2. Proto-Italic*knuks
  3. Latinnux
  4. Latinnucleu
  5. Englishnucleus
  6. Englishnucleo-
  7. Englishprotein
  8. Englishnucleoprotein
  9. English todayribonucleoprotein

From ribo- + nucleoprotein.

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