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PAIRING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of grouping things or people in pairs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("pairing" is a kind of...):
grouping (the activity of putting things together in groups)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pairing"):
buddy system (a cooperative practice of pairing two or more people together for mutual assistance or safety (especially in recreational swimming))
match-up; matchup (the pairing of people or things as for comparison or competition)
Derivation:
pair (form a pair or pairs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
Example:
the mating of some species occurs only in the spring
Synonyms:
conjugation; coupling; mating; pairing; sexual union; union
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("pairing" is a kind of...):
sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pairing"):
assortative mating (mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating)
disassortative mating (mating of individuals having traits more dissimilar than likely in random mating)
cross; crossbreeding; crossing; hybridisation; hybridization; hybridizing; interbreeding ((genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids)
inbreeding (the act of mating closely related individuals)
service; servicing (the act of mating by male animals)
Derivation:
pair (engage in sexual intercourse)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb pair
Context examples:
The production of animals or plants by selective pairing.
(Breeding, NCI Thesaurus)
With either pairing, the oxidized nucleotide causes a nick—an opening between the 2 DNA strands.
(Structural Snapshots of Damaged DNA, NIH)
Base-Base Mismatch results from mutagenic factors that induce chemical modification of DNA bases so that pairing between specific bases on complementary DNA strands is eliminated causing mispairing.
(Base-Base Mismatch, NCI Thesaurus)
The process by which the two strands of a DNA double helix separate, allowing each strand to act as a template for the synthesis of a complementary strand by specific base pairing.
(DNA replication, NCI Thesaurus)
Typically used in biomedical research, Linker-Oligonucleotides are usually short nucleic acids (DNA) that bridge or link, by complementary base pairing, two nucleic acids related by sequence and that lead to extension of the nucleic acid molecule.
(Linker-Oligonucleotide, NCI Thesaurus)
Binding of the antibody to the dimerization domain of the HER-2 tyrosine kinase receptor protein directly inhibits the ability of the HER-2 tyrosine kinase receptor protein (the most common pairing partner) to dimerize with other HER tyrosine kinase receptor proteins; inhibiting receptor protein dimerization prevents the activation of HER signaling pathways, resulting in tumor cell apoptosis.
(Pertuzumab, NCI Thesaurus)
Generally refers to relative simple learning situations in which a stimulus initially incapable of evoking a certain response acquires the ability to do so by repeated pairing with another stimulus that does elicit the response.
(Conditioning, NCI Thesaurus)
DNA Replication Inhibition involves interference with, or restraint of, the activities of biologic molecules or complexes involved in the process by which the two strands of a DNA double helix separate and each strand acts as a template for the synthesis of a complementary strand by specific base pairing.
(DNA Replication Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)
DNA Replication Induction involves initiation of activities of biologic molecules or complexes involved in the process by which the two strands of a DNA double helix separate and each strand acts as a template for the synthesis of a complementary strand by specific base pairing.
(DNA Replication Induction, NCI Thesaurus)
The researchers conditioned human participants to fear colored squares by pairing them with mild wrist shocks.
(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)
