hairpin transfers

A form of hairpin transfer — Transfer of genetic information from a strand of nucleic acid that terminates in a hairpin ribozyme by first detaching one side of the base of the hairpin, so that the hairpin is flattened out before making the RNA copy.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of hairpin transfer
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