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semiconservative

adj

Etymology

From semi- + conservative.

  1. derived from cōnservō — “to preserve”
  2. borrowed from conservatif
  3. prefixed as semiconservative — “semi + conservative”

Definitions

  1. Somewhat politically conservative.

  2. Describing the process of DNA replication in which the two strands of the molecule…

    Describing the process of DNA replication in which the two strands of the molecule separate, each acting as a template for the formation of a complementary new strand.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA