Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun plasmid_dna

1 sense of plasmid dna

Sense 1
plasmid, plasmid DNA -- (a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication)
       => inclusion body, cellular inclusion, inclusion -- (any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases); "an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell")