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Palindrome
A concept borrowed from linguistics; a segment of a double-stranded polynucleotide such that the order of bases, read 5'-to-3' in one strand, is the same as that in the complementary antiparallel strand, read 5'-to-3'; a common structural feature of DNA sequences that constitute specific protein-binding sites.
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A sequence that reads the same in either direction. In genetics, refers to an enzyme recognition sequence that reads the same on both strands of DNA.
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