STICKY END

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sticky end mean? 

• STICKY END (noun)
  The noun STICKY END has 1 sense:

1. an end of DNA in which one strand of the double helix extends a few units beyond the other

  Familiarity information: STICKY END used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STICKY END (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An end of DNA in which one strand of the double helix extends a few units beyond the other

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("sticky end" is a kind of...):

deoxyribonucleic acid; desoxyribonucleic acid; DNA ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information)