Hybridization

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Introduction

• The process of 2 complementary nucleic acid strands ( DNA or RNA) form a double helix during an annealing period. This is a technique used extensively for identifying specific nucleotide sequences.

More General Terms

• reversible binding
• biochemistry

References

Alperts et al Molecular Biology of the Cell, Garland Publishing, New York, NY 1989

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