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  • noun chemistry Any salt or ester of polyadenylic acid
  • verb To form the polyadenylate salt or ester of something (especially of a nucleic acid)

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  • However, even as generations of students beginning with the discovery of polyadenylate tracts in hnRNA in eukaryotes were learning of this distinction, we knew that all was not right with this.

    The Panda's Thumb: Arthur Hunt Archives 2010

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