OLIGONUCLEOTIDE

oligonucleotide, oligo

(noun) (biochemistry) a polynucleotide whose molecules contain relatively few nucleotides

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

oligonucleotide (plural oligonucleotides)

a short sequence of nucleotides (RNA or DNA), typically with twenty or fewer base pairs

Synonym: oligo

Hyponym: oligodeoxyribonucleotide

Source: Wiktionary



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3 July 2025

SENSE

(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”


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Coffee Trivia

The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.

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