Homopurine

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

Example

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"In DNA homopyrimidine 2 homopurine triplexes [64 ], the homopyrimidine strands are antiparallel."

Etymology

From homo- + purine.

Related phrases

nucleic acid

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