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2polyadenylate

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polyadenylat·edpolyadenylat·ing

Medical Definition of POLYADENYLATE

:  to add one or more segments of poly(A) to <some mechanism must exist in the cytoplasm for polyadenylating messenger RNA—Benjamin Lewin>
poly·aden·y·la·tion \-ə-ˌden-ə-ˈlā-shən\ noun

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