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heteroduplex

noun

Etymology

From hetero- + duplex.

  1. borrowed from duplex
  2. prefixed as heteroduplex — “hetero + duplex”

Definitions

  1. A nucleic acid composed of two chains with each derived from a different parent molecule

  2. To form such a compound by genetic recombination

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for heteroduplex. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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