misprime
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To prime incorrectly.
Example Sentences
- "It is also useful when using degenerate primers which may misprime and cause nonspecific products."
- "As described previously, primers are apt to dimerize or misprime, particularly in the absence of specific target."
- "Aberrant annealing has also been observed — either due to the use of the incorrect tRNA to misprime reverse transcription (Colicelli and Goff 1986a, b; Wakefield et al. 1995) or due to the priming of cellular mRNAs with short “tRNA-like” primers (Taylor and Cywinski 1984)."