Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
yeast artificial chromosome Function:
noun : a chromosome that is used especially to clone DNA segments longer than those capable of being cloned in bacteria,that is introduced for cloning into a yeast of the genus
Saccharomyces (
S. cerevisiae), that contains a centromere, a telomere, and a replication initiation site suitable for use in theyeast, and into which a segment of foreign DNA up to about a million base pairs in length has been spliced for cloning —abbreviation
YAC
