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Complementary strands

Complementary strands

(Science: molecular biology) two single strands of dna in which the nucleotide Sequence is such that they will bind as a result of base pairing throughout their full length.


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Re: rna interference

... of the RNAi system. VIral RNA may be manufactured as two independent complementary strands by using the vial RNA-directed RNA polymerases. However, when RNAi is produced from ...

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by jonmoulton
Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:17 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: rna interference
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rna interference

... the dna is modified so as to produce double stranded rna due to both strands getting transcripted. This in turn binds(being complementary) with the mRna produced by the pathogen, stopping its further translation. Then ...

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by prateeiik
Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:15 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: rna interference
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Re: dideoxy chain-termination method for sequencing DNA

... G, one for T, and one for C) so that the DNA polymerase can build the complementary strand in just one try (so that you actually conserve nucleotides ... by Campbell and Reece pg. 397 figure 20.12 step #2, the figure shows strands of increasing length with the ddC, ddG, ddA, or ddT at the top of ...

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by thewax
Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:33 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: dideoxy chain-termination method for sequencing DNA
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dideoxy chain-termination method for sequencing DNA

... G, one for T, and one for C) so that the DNA polymerase can build the complementary strand in just one try (so that you actually conserve nucleotides ... by Campbell and Reece pg. 397 figure 20.12 step #2, the figure shows strands of increasing length with the ddC, ddG, ddA, or ddT at the top of ...

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by thewax
Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:26 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: dideoxy chain-termination method for sequencing DNA
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DNA microchip techniques

... denatures the DNA in the samples - a process that separates the two complementary strands of DNA into single-stranded molecules. The next step is to cut the long strands of ...

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by pguo
Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:44 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: DNA microchip techniques
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