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That portion of the DNA in plant and animal cells consisting of highly repetitious sequences (millions of copies) typically in the range from 5 to ...
http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/X3910E/X3910E22.htm
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A portion of the DNA that differs enough in base composition so that it forms a distinct band on cesium chloride gradient centrifugation; usually contains highly repetitive DNA sequences.
http://www.kumc.edu/gec/gloss.html
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Satellite DNA: DNA that contains many tandem (not inverted) repeats of a short basic repeating unit. Satellite DNA is located at very specific spots in the genome (on chromosomes 1, 9, 16 and the Y chromosome, the tiny short arms of chromosomes 13-15 a more detail info...
http://www.medicineonline.com/dictionary/dict_S.html
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Highly repetitive, non-transcribed DNA regions in eukaryotic chromosomes that have a different sedimentatin coefficient than other nuclear DNA.
http://www.genpromag.com/Glossary.aspx
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Satellite DNA consists of highly repetitive DNA, and is so called because repetitive DNA sequences tend to have a relatively high frequency of the nucleotides adenine and thymine, and thus have lower density - such that they form a second 'satellite' band when genomic DNA is separated along a ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite DNA
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