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sticky end
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sticky end
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Informal an unpleasant finish or death (esp in the phrase come to or meet a sticky end)
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Noun1.sticky end - an end of DNA in which one strand of the double helix extends a few units beyond the other
deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA - (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information; "DNA is the king of molecules"


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To do so, the researchers took advantage of the ability of certain DNA sequences to fold into a hairpin-like structure or to bind to neighboring sticky ends on the same particle.
Teenagers looking into a spate of modern myths being brought to gruesome life on a college campus, meet with various sticky ends in this slasherfest in the Scream mould.
One arrangement used two types of tile and the other used four types "We can generate predictable patterns on the [intermediate] scale by making specific alterations of sticky ends on the molecular scale," Seeman says.
 
 
 
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