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Mitochondrial DNA

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-017533

Typically small, circular, intronless, and maternally inherited, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is the multicopy deoxyribonucleic acid genome of mitochondria, intracellular organelles responsible for vital respiratory chain and oxidative phosphorylation reactions in higher eukaryotes. Replicated and transcribed by a separate enzymatic machinery from that of nuclear DNA, mtDNA encodes only a subset of mitochondrial functions. (NCI04)

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-017533
FieldEnvironment
AbbreviationmtDNA
ReferencesNational Cancer Institute Thesaurus (CC BY 4.0)
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-017533",
  "term": "Mitochondrial DNA",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Typically small, circular, intronless, and maternally inherited, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is the multicopy deoxyribonucleic acid genome of mitochondria, intracellular organelles responsible for vital respiratory chain and oxidative phosphorylation reactions in higher eukaryotes. Replicated and transcribed by a separate enzymatic machinery from that of nuclear DNA, mtDNA encodes only a subset of mitochondrial functions. (NCI04)",
  "abbreviation": "mtDNA",
  "references": [
    "National Cancer Institute Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/mitochondrial-dna/"
}

Record 17,533 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.