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STICKY END
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An end of DNA in which one strand of the double helix extends a few units beyond the other
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Hypernyms ("sticky end" is a kind of...):
deoxyribonucleic acid; desoxyribonucleic acid; DNA ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information)