Annealing
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Introduction
- Alignment & hydrogen bonding of complementary strands of DNA or DNA & RNA. The process is cooperative. Initially, binding is slow & reversible. As hydrogen bonding between base pairs form in strands complementary & aligned, binding or annealing occurs rapidly.
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References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
