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Standard XII
Biology
Palindrome Sequences
What are pali...
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What are palindromic nucleotide sequences?
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A palindromic sequence is a sequence of nitrogen bases in a double stranded DNA or RNA, which when read from 5' end to 3' end is same as that on the complementary strand read from 3'end to 5' end
example
5
′
_____
G
A
A
T
T
C
_____
3
′
3
′
_____
C
T
T
A
A
G
_____
5
′
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