dehybridize

verb — 2 senses

dehybridize

verb

Etymology From de- + hybridize.

1

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences To produce genetically stable offspring from an F1 hybrid

2

To remove hybridization

  • In contrast with predictions based on the melting temperatures of DNA [12 –14 ], our results show that an increasing percentage of GC base pairs in a long DNA molecule lowers the stretching force necessary to locally dehybridize the DNA backbones in the presence of negative supercoiling densities.2015 October 30, “Counterintuitive DNA Sequence Dependence in Supercoiling-Induced DNA Melting”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

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