nick translation (English, noun)
expansion: nick translation (uncountable)
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glosses: A tagging technique in molecular biology in which DNA polymerase I is used to replace some of the nucleotides of a DNA sequence with their labelled analogues, creating a tagged sequence which can be used as a probe in hybridization or blotting techniques.
tags: uncountable
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