| kinetoplast | <cell biology> Mass of mitochondrial DNA, usually adjacent to the flagellar basal body, in flagellate protozoa. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| kinetoplastida | An order of flagellate protozoa. Characteristics include the presence of one or two flagella arising from a depression in the cell body and a single mitochondrion that extends the length of the body. (12 Dec 1998) |
| DNA, kinetoplast | Mitochondrial DNA of trypanosomes and related parasitic protozoa within the order kinetoplastida. Kinetoplast DNA is used as a DNA probe and consists of a complex network of numerous catenated rings of two classes; the first being a large number of small DNA duplex rings, called minicircles, approximately 2000 base pairs in length, and the second being several dozen much larger rings, called maxicircles, approximately 37 kb in length. (12 Dec 1998) |
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