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base sequence

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base sequence [′bās ′sē·kwəns]
(genetics)
The specific order of purine and pyrimidine bases in a polynucleotide such as deoxyribonucleic acid or ribonucleic acid.


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Designing a base sequence of artificial DNA, for the DNA replication reaction, that depends strongly on the differences in DNA sequences.
Anil points out an interesting truth that shows the exaggerative qualities of people specializing in the field of logology: "I doubt that we will ever find any truly sesquipedalian words unless we count the poly-hyphenated amino acid sequences of proteins or the acronymic DNA base sequences of genes.
Asahi Glass Company Ltd (Tokyo, Japan) has patented a secretion signal gene having a base sequence encoding a polypeptide functional as a secretion signal in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe (hereinafter referred to as S.
 
 
 
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