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- A polymer that repeatedly branches until stopped by the physical constraint of having formed a complete, hollow sphere. These structures possess sites on their exterior surface to which DNA fragments can be attached, and are thus useful as carriers of DNA for transgenesis.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Cite This Source - This Definition - amber stop codon, feedback inhibition, nonsense mutation, ochre stop codon, opal stop codon, Open reading frame, Stop codon, Termination codon, terminator codon, translational stop signal