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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

prepro- en · X

Etymology

From biology circa the 1960s and 1970s, as part of the development of the science of posttranslational modification; by surface analysis, pre- + pro-.

Meanings

  1. (morpheme) Denoting a precursor (molecule).

Coordinates

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