レプリコン

noun

replicon

A unit of DNA or RNA that replicates from a single origin of replication; technical term in molecular biology.

• プラスミドは細さい菌きん内ないで自じ律りつ的てきに複ふく製せいするレプリコンとして働はたらく。

  Plasmids function as replicons that replicate autonomously within bacteria.