Intrahelical
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Within a helix. not-comparable
"In the present study, however, the nonrepeat regions was chosen for investigation because the central repeat region is overly diverse due to insertions/deletions during meiotic sexual recombination or intrahelical strand slippage during mitosis and sequence alignment of the repeat region is difficult and uncertain."
Example
More examples"In the present study, however, the nonrepeat regions was chosen for investigation because the central repeat region is overly diverse due to insertions/deletions during meiotic sexual recombination or intrahelical strand slippage during mitosis and sequence alignment of the repeat region is difficult and uncertain."
Etymology
From intra- + helical.
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