| antisense strand |
the strand of a double-stranded nucleic acid that is complementary to the sense strand, in DNA being thus the template strand on which the mRNA is synthesized. Cf. sense s. See also antisense RNA.
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| antisense strand |
Most genetic material, both DNA and RNA, appears as two chains or strands of nucleotides wound together into a double helix - the common picture of DNA. Each nucleotide - A, T, C and G - has an attractive opposite (A attracts T, C attracts G). As a result, one strand, the "sense" strand, contains the information (for example, ATG-AAA) and the other strand, the "antisense" strand contains the opposite of this information (TAC-TTT - according to the pairing rules). ...
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