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Named after British molecular biologist Robin Holliday (1932–2014), who proposed it in 1964 to account for homologous recombination in Ustilago maydis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Holliday junction
Today it means: A junction between four strands of DNA. They are a key intermediate in many types of genetic recombination, as well as in double-strand break repair. Full definition →