Medical Dictionary

selfish

adj self·ish \ˈsel-fish\

Medical Definition of SELFISH

:  being an actively replicating repetitive sequence of nucleic acid that serves no known function <selfish DNA>; also :  being genetic material solely concerned with its own replication <selfish genes>

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