Minisatellite

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• minisatellite — ● minisatellite nom masculin Petit satellite dont la masse est généralement comprise entre 100 kg et 500 kg environ, optimisé pour une mission scientifique ou une application spécifique …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Minisatellite — This article is about the DNA sequence. For the size class of orbiting spacecraft, see miniaturized satellite. A minisatellite (also referred as VNTR) is a section of DNA that consists of a short series of bases 10 60 bp.[1][2] These occur at… …   Wikipedia

• minisatellite — mini·sat·el·lite sat əl .īt n any of numerous DNA segments located mainly near the ends of chromosomes that consist of repeating sequences of at least five but usu. not more than 100 nucleotides and that are useful in DNA fingerprinting compare… …   Medical dictionary

• minisatellite DNA — see minisatellite …   Medical dictionary

• minisatellite — (= variable number tandem repeat; VNTR) Class of highly repetitive satellite DNA, comprising variable (typically 10 20) repeats of short (eg. 64 bases) DNA sequences. The high level of polymorphism of such minisatellites make them very useful in… …   Dictionary of molecular biology

• minisatellite — noun A short series of bases that reoccurs many times in a genome …   Wiktionary

• minisatellite — A form of variable number tandem repeats in which the repeat unit size ranges from 10 100 bp. Used for DNA fingerprinting following Southern hybridization. Generally concentrated at the ends of chromosomes and in regions with a high frequency of… …   Glossary of Biotechnology

• ADN minisatellite — Minisatellite Séquences du génome répétées en tandem dont la taille du motif unitaire est compris entre 10 à 100 nucléotides. Elles sont présentes chez toutes les espèces et sont particulièrement étudiées chez l homme et les bactéries. Bactéries… …   Wikipédia en Français

• directed amplification of minisatellite DNA — Abbreviation: DAMD A polymerase chain reaction technique used for obtaining molecular markers in the region of minisatellites. To target these regions, one of the primers is directed to a VNTR core sequence …   Glossary of Biotechnology

• satellite DNA — (= minisatellite; microsatellite) DNA, usually containing highly repetitive sequences, that has a base composition (and thus density) sufficiently different from that of normal DNA that it sediments as a distinct band in caesium chloride density… …   Dictionary of molecular biology