Medical Definition of Homopolymer tailing

1. A lab technique where a nucleic acid homopolymer (a long chain of the same nucleotide over and over) is attached to the end of a piece of DNA as a part of DNA cloning. It is especially useful in cDNA cloning to get the cDNA inserted into the cloning vector -- a nucleic acid homopolymer which contains the complementary nucleotide to the cDNA tail is attached to the vector, which then pairs with the tail on the cDNA. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Homopolymer Tailing

homophylies
homophyly
homoplasies
homoplasmic
homoplasmy
homoplast
homoplastic
homoplastic graft
homoplasts
homoplasty
homoplasy
homopolar
homopolar generator
homopolic
homopolymer
homopolymer tailing (current term)
homopolymeric
homopolymerisation
homopolymerisations
homopolymerization
homopolymerizations
homopolymerize
homopolymers
homopolyriboadenine
homopolysaccharide
homopolysaccharides
homopolyuridine
homoproline
homopropargyl
homopropargylglycine

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