open reading frame (English, noun)
expansion: open reading frame (plural open reading frames, abbreviation ORF)
Senses:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sequence of DNA triplets, between the initiator and terminator codons, that can be transcribed into mRNA and later translated into protein.
Forms:
form: open reading frames
tags: plural
form: ORF
tags: abbreviation