Medical Dictionary
long terminal repeat
noun
Medical Definition of LONG TERMINAL REPEAT
: an identical sequence of several hundred base pairs at each end of the DNA synthesized by the reverse transcriptase of a retrovirus that controls integration of the viral DNA into the host DNA and expression of the genes of the virus—called also LTR; compare tandem repeat
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