posttranscriptional

[ pohst-tran-skrip-shuh-nl ]

noun
  1. Genetics, Biochemistry. occurring after the formation of RNA from DNA but before the RNA strand leaves the nucleus.

Origin of posttranscriptional

1
1965–70; post- + transcriptional

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