Sentences with phrase «snippets of nucleic acid»
Bacterial microbes face a never - ending onslaught from viruses and invasive snippets of nucleic acid known as plasmids.
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Says Roberts: «He quickly figured out that if Illumina was successful, it would need more than the world's supply of oligonucleotides» — the short snippets of nucleic acid that are designed to pair up with specific genetic sequences, and which are critical for DNA or RNA analysis.
Not exact matches
One way to shut down the communication link is through a snippet of RNA called «antisense» — which binds to the messenger RNA (a «sense» - making strip of nucleic acids) that is transcribed by a given stretch of DNA.