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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of a group of molecules that have the same chemical formula but different topologic structures, particularly forms of DNA that have different numbers of twists or supercoils.
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- noun biochemistry An
isomer of abiological macromolecule that has a distincttopology
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