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Definition of Sticky end
1. Noun. An end of DNA in which one strand of the double helix extends a few units beyond the other.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sticky End
Literary usage of Sticky end
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1877)
"... email navicula-like diatom coming in contact with the spot where the sticky
end joined the non-adhering protoplasm of the diaphane, sank into the body, ..."
2. The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph by Th. Du Moncel (1879)
"... part toward the cylinder; raise it with the right hand and apply it quite
smoothly to the cylinder; bring round the sticky end, and join them firmly. ..."
3. The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph by Th. Du Moncel (1879)
"... part toward the cylinder; raise it with the right hand and apply it quite
smoothly to the cylinder; bring round the sticky end, and join them firmly. ..."
4. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"When a pollen-dusted bee alights on one of these maturer flowers the sticky end
of the now depending style is gently rubbed by the bee's back and smeared ..."
5. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"When a pollen-dusted bee alights on one of these maturer flowers the sticky end
of the now depending style is gently rubbed by the bee's back and smeared ..."
6. Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura by John. Lubbock (1873)
"... and if this is not done, the flower is not fertilized and when an insect lights
on the flower the sticky end of the seed is not developed. ..."
7. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1901)
"The sticky end of the club shapes itself into an upper and a lower flap, which
partly envelop the prey, and the elastic bands of the far-stretched stalk ..."
8. Studies in Physiology, Anatomy and Hygiene by James Edward Peabody (1903)
"In securing the insects upon which it largely feeds, the animal opens its mouth
and thrusts forward the sticky end of the tongue, which captures the fly or ..."
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