Meanings
verb
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of decatenate
Xer-dif recombination decatenates chromosome copies during cell division [61 ][62 ].
2015 July 11, “Novel recA -Independent Horizontal Gene Transfer in Escherichia coli K-12”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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