EPISOMAL
- EPISOME, a genetic determinant [adj]
- a genetic determinant (as the DNA of some bacteriophages) that can replicate autonomously in bacterial cytoplasm or as an integral part of the chromosomes
- pertaining to an episome (a genetically active particle found in bacteria) [adj]
- bacterial DNA that is extrachromosomal and that may replicate autonomously as a plasmid or become incorporated into the chromosome and replicate with it