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homopurine

homopurine adjective: describing a pairing of a purine with the same one on a neighboring strand of nucleic acid.

Adjective

homopurine

  1. Describing a pairing of a purine with the same one on a neighboring strand of nucleic acid
    • In DNA homopyrimidine 2 homopurine triplexes [64 ], the homopyrimidine strands are antiparallel.2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of homopurine

From homo- + purine.

Questions about homopurine

What does homopurine mean?
Homopurine means describing a pairing of a purine with the same one on a neighboring strand of nucleic acid.
What part of speech is homopurine?
Homopurine is an adjective.

Words near homopurine in the dictionary

  1. homopterist
  2. homopterists
  3. homopterocarpin
  4. homopterous
  5. homopters
  6. homopurine
  7. homopurinic
  8. homopycnal
  9. homopyrimidine
  10. homopyrimidinic
  11. homorepeat

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