ISPE Glossary of Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Terminology

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Satellite DNA

That portion of the DNA in plant and animal cells consisting of highly repetitious sequences (millions of copies) typically in the range from 5 to 500 bases. Thousands of copies occur tandemly (end-on-end) at each of many sites. It can be isolated from the rest of the DNA by density gradient centrifugation.

Publication Source: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Publication Date: 1999

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