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hairpin transfers

hairpin transfers is the plural of hairpin transfer.

Meaning of hairpin transfer

Noun

hairpin transfer (plural hairpin transfers)

  1. Transfer of genetic information from a strand of nucleic acid that terminates in a hairpin ribozyme by first detaching one side of the base of the hairpin, so that the hairpin is flattened out before making the RNA copy.
    • Because the terminal sequences are not perfect inverted repeats, hairpin transfer results in two end sequences that are related but the inverted complement of each other.1999, Allan Granoff, Robert G. Webster, Encyclopedia of Virology

Questions about hairpin transfers

What is hairpin transfers the plural of?
Hairpin transfers is the plural of hairpin transfer.

Words near hairpin transfers in the dictionary

  1. hairpin bend
  2. hairpin bends
  3. hairpin curve
  4. hairpin curves
  5. hairpin transfer
  6. hairpin transfers
  7. hairpin turn
  8. hairpin turns
  9. hairpinned
  10. hairpins
  11. hairpipe

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