ribosomal DNA

American  

noun

1. Genetics. the sequence of DNA that codes for ribosomal RNA.

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Example Sentences

"But it's also a really privileged DNA repair environment with low oncogenic risk from gene insertion. It's brilliant that these successful retroelements -- I'm anthropomorphizing them -- have gone into the ribosomal DNA. It's multicopy, it's conserved, and it's a safe harbor in the sense that you can disrupt one of these copies and the cell doesn't care."

From Science Daily

Shao and colleagues’ study has identified an interesting player in ribosome assembly that might efficiently couple DNA DSB repair with processing of precursor rRNA, which is highly transcribed from the naturally unstable ribosomal DNA template.

From Nature

We further demonstrated that melamine is converted to cyanuric acid in vitro by bacteria cultured from normal rat feces; Klebsiella was subsequently identified in fecal samples by 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing.

From Science Magazine

While other evolutionary biologists had long studied physical traits of species to determine their relationships, Dr. Woese spent years laboriously comparing the genetic sequences of protein-building structures in cells, known as ribosomes and ribosomal DNA.

From New York Times

Organellar reads were removed by screening against mitochondria, chloroplast and ribosomal DNA.

From Nature