"duplices" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1972, John Howard Parish, Principles and Practice of Experiments with Nucleic Acids, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 328:",
          "text": "In addition to the A and B forms of DNA, there is a third form (C-DNA). It is essentially very similar to B-DNA but the duplices are packed differently in the fibre and moreover the number of base pairs per full turn of the helix is not an integer (Marvin, Spencer, Wilkins and Hamilton, 1961).",
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          "ref": "1984, Biotechnology Research Abstracts, CSA, page 2:",
          "text": "Hypochromicity studies have shown that these duplices are less stable than either the totally complementary duplex or those containing A.C. and G.T mismatches.",
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          "ref": "1993, P. Tijssen, Hybridization with Nucleic Acid Probes (Laboratory Techniques in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; 24), part I (Theory and nucleic acid preparation), Elsevier, →ISBN, page 26:",
          "text": "Nucleic acid duplices can be reversibly dissociated into single strands and several parameters may drive the de/renaturation one way or the other.",
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          "ref": "2002, Douglas T. Gjerde, Christopher P. Hanna, David Hornby, DNA Chromatography, Wiley-VCH, →ISBN, page 136:",
          "text": "These polymer chains are not typically found as paired duplices, but rather as complex forms that comprise paired segments and loops that are often stabilized by metal ions.",
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