Meanings
noungenophore (plural genophores)
plural genophores
- biologyThe DNA of a prokaryote.
This switch from actin-based genophore partition to a tubulin-based mechanism generated a transition period during which both types of cytoskeleton contributed to fidelity of chromosome segregation.
2007, A. Villasante, J. P. Abad, M. Méndez-Lago, “Centromeres were derived from telomeres during the evolution of the eukaryotic chromosome”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, →DOI - biologyThe genetic behavior and correlated DNA fibrils of bacteria.
Origin
From geno- + -phore. In the bacterial sense, coined by Hans Ris.
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