dehybridize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To produce genetically stable offspring from an F1 hybrid
verb
Example Sentences
- "In contrast with predictions based on the melting temperatures of DNA [12 –14 ], our results show that an increasing percentage of GC base pairs in a long DNA molecule lowers the stretching force necessary to locally dehybridize the DNA backbones in the presence of negative supercoiling densities."
Etymology
From de- + hybridize.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de