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extranuclear DNA

genetics

Also known as: cytoplasmic DNA

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In heredity: Extranuclear DNA
All of the genetic information in a cell was initially thought to be confined to the DNA in the chromosomes of the cell nucleus. It is now known that small circular chromosomes, called extranuclear, or cytoplasmic, DNA, are located in two types of…
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