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palindrome

[′pal·ən‚drōm]
(genetics)
A nucleic acid sequence that is self-complementary.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Palindrome

 

a sentence or verse that can be read, by letters or by words, backward or forward; both readings will make sense and usually will be identical. “Madam, I’m Adam” is an example of an English palindrome.

The artistic quality of a palindrome depends on the structure of a given language. In Russian and other European languages, palindromes usually sound artificial and unintelligible, whereas in Chinese, for instance, many highly artistic poems are palindromes. Examples of Russian palindromes can be found in V. V. Khlebnikov’s narrative poem Razin’s Boat and in works by V. Ia. Briusov, I. L. Sel’vinskii, and A. A. Voznesenskii.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The first published palindromic charade passage pairs of which I am
As a rule, Espy was not a great fan of palindromes, but the novelty of word-unit palindromic poems, as well as the particular charms of these two, evidently swayed him, and he included them in his 1980 Potter book, Another Almanac of Words at Play, on pages 108 and 109.
Russell, "Palindromic rheumatism is a common disease: comparison of new-onset palindromic rheumatism compared to new-onset rheumatoid arthritis in a 2-year cohort of patients," Journal of Rheumatology, vol.
The presence of palindromic sequence at the start of the TSS shows that it may act as cis-element for a transcription factor to regulate the HSPA6 expression (Krawczyk, Thurow, Niggeweg, and Gatz, 2002).
First, we recall the definition of palindromic defect as it was introduced by Brlek, Hamel, Nivat and Reutenauer in Brlek et al.
As you can see from the graph in Figure 5, not only is a palindromic licence plate interesting to read in photograph form, but the graph of the licence plate is more visually appealing than the graph in Figure 3.
Association of ultrasonographic findings of synovitis with anti-cyclic citrullinated Peptide antibodies and rheumatoid factor in patients with palindromic rheumatism during active episodes.
Unlike most types of arthritis, palindromic rheumatism leads to sporadic attacks of joint pain and inflammation.
Note that P([lambda]) is palindromic because [A.sub.1] = [A.sub.1] and [A.sub.2] = [A.sup.*.sub.0].
parahaemolyticus isolated from Rhode Island oyster and water samples was compared with pandemic and clinical strains using repetitive extragenic palindromic polymerase chain reaction.
CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is itself a sort of immune system for bacteria.
The stolen DNA pieces are stored in specific locations in the bacterial genome called CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) loci.
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