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Article #4292Re: looking for the right word
From: Jack Kramer
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1989 20:32
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1989 20:32
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In article <3790@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>
> I'm at a loss for a word. The generalization of first, second,
>third, ... is nth. The generalization of primary, secondary, tertiary, ...
>is n-ary. But, what is the generalization of mononucleotide, dinucleotide,
>trinucleotide, tertranucleotide, ....? N-nucleotide doesn't sound right,
>nor does nmer, which is more the generalizaion of monomer, dimer, trimer,
>etc. Any suggestions?
>--
>Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
>455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
>{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu
>"The connector is the network"
I think most are used to "oligonucleotide" for any small fragment.
Chemically I think good old polymer or polynucleotide is correct.
I have also heard the term "multimer" used this way, but this could
cause a lot of confusion since multimer normally means multiple-
polymer.
Jack Kramer
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!bionet!jbkramer From: jbkramer@NET.BIO.NET (Jack Kramer) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: looking for the right word Message-ID: <Jun.1.13.32.25.1989.11591@NET.BIO.NET> Date: 1 Jun 89 20:32:25 GMT References: <3790@phri.UUCP> Reply-To: jbkramer@NET.BIO.NET.UUCP (Jack Kramer) Organization: BIONET Natl. Computer Resource for Mol. Biologists Lines: 22