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sense strand

[′sens ‚strand]
(cell and molecular biology)
The strand of a double-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid molecule that is complementary to the ribonucleic acid formed by transcription. Also known as coding strand.
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In three independent studies it has been reported that the presence of more G/C in 5' end of Sense Strand (SS) is important for increasing the functionality of siRNA (15), (19), (21), (23).
One became the genetic code (ATG) on the sense strand and the mRNA codon (AUG).
The filter for the nucleotide composition at the 5'-end of the sense strand (f-ssnt).
Calibration of SSCP peak positions for CnVG, CnVN, and Cg * Cn strains Sense strand peak ([dagger]) CnVG (KN99[alpha]; MAT[alpha]) 3230.57 [+ or -] 0.37 CnVG (KN99a; MATa) 4501.35 [+ or -] 1.29 CnVN (NIH12; MAT [alpha]) 3252.77 [+ or -] 1.29 CnVN (NIH340; MATa) 4643.75 [+ or -] 1.12 Cg (NIH 444, MAT[alpha]) 3161.54 [+ or -] 0.95 Cg (NIH 198, MATa) 4593.35 [+ or -] 1.2 * SSCP, single-strand conformation polymorphisms; Cn, Cryptococcus neoformans; Cg, Cryptococcus gattii; VN, var.
Math Chat focuses on the number sense strand and stresses mental computation, estimation, and basic number facts and, for the upper grades, fractions and decimals.
When linked by complementary base pairing, the two strands that comprise dsDNA are called sense and antisense strands, where the DNA antisense strand is the complementary base pair copy of the DNA sense strand [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 2 OMITTED].
Figure 2 shows the general schema of DNA sense strand, where SSDNA denotes root of sense strand of DNA system, with n nucleotides i.e., N1, N2, N3...Nn as its children.
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