"hairpin transfer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999, Allan Granoff, Robert G. Webster, Encyclopedia of Virology",
          "text": "Because the terminal sequences are not perfect inverted repeats, hairpin transfer results in two end sequences that are related but the inverted complement of each other.",
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          "ref": "2005, Jonathan Kerr, Susan Cotmore, Marshall E Bloom, Parvoviruses, page 194",
          "text": "Conclusive evidence that hairpin transfer does occur as hypothesized was provided by assays that employed a closed hairpin form of the viral ITR, which was constructed from the cloned AAV genome (Snyder et al., 1990).",
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        "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."
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        "(genetics) 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."
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  "word": "hairpin transfer"
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          "ref": "1999, Allan Granoff, Robert G. Webster, Encyclopedia of Virology",
          "text": "Because the terminal sequences are not perfect inverted repeats, hairpin transfer results in two end sequences that are related but the inverted complement of each other.",
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        "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."
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        "(genetics) 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."
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