Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hairpin transfer

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English

Syllables: hair-pin -trans-fer
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Transfer of genetic information from a strand of nucleic acid that terminates in a hairpin ribozyme by first detaching one side of the base of the hairpin, so that the hairpin is flattened out before making the RNA copy.

Example Sentences

"Because the terminal sequences are not perfect inverted repeats, hairpin transfer results in two end sequences that are related but the inverted complement of each other."
"Conclusive evidence that hairpin transfer does occur as hypothesized was provided by assays that employed a closed hairpin form of the viral ITR, which was constructed from the cloned AAV genome (Snyder et al., 1990)."

Inflected Forms

hairpin transfers (plural)

Questions

What does hairpin transfer mean?: Transfer of genetic information from a strand of nucleic acid that terminates in a hairpin ribozyme by first detaching one side of the base of the hairpin, so that the hairpin is flattened out before making the RNA copy.

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