Medical Definition of Mitoribosome
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| Mitochondrial ribosomes, these more closely resemble prokaryotic ribosomes than cytoplasmic ribosomes of the cells in which they are found, though they are even smaller and have fewer proteins than bacterial ribosomes.
Origin: Gr. Soma = body
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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