hairpin transfer (English, noun)
expansion: hairpin transfer (plural hairpin transfers)
Senses:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Transfer of genetic information from a strand of nucleic acid that terminates in a hairpin ribozyme by first detaching one side of the base of the hairpin, so that the hairpin is flattened out before making the RNA copy.
Forms:
form: hairpin transfers
tags: plural