r 1 e 1 c 3 o 1 n 1
5 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
Meaning
originContracted form of recombination + -on, coined by American molecular biologist Seymour Benzer in 1957 as " […] the smallest element in the one-dimensional array that is interchangeable (but not divisible) by genetic recombination."
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