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STRANDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cut off or left behind
Example:
travelers marooned by the blizzard
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
unaccompanied (being without an escort)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb strand
Context examples:
This allele, which encodes Bloom syndrome protein, plays a role in the unwinding of single- and double-stranded DNA in a 3'-5' direction during DNA replication and repair.
(BLM wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
And then we quite forgot where we were, leaving Wolf Larsen stranded and silent in the midst of our flood of gossip.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A sequence of single-stranded RNA, that is 20-25 nucleotides in length, which is transcribed from DNA but is not translated into a protein.
(microRNA, NCI Thesaurus)
A sequence of single-stranded RNA which is typically 20-25 nucleotides in length and may regulate the expression of other genes. miRNAs are transcribed from DNA, but are not translated into proteins.
(microRNA, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus of the Paramyxoviridae family.
(Paramyxovirus, NCI Thesaurus)
A group of double-stranded DNA viruses that cause warts on the skin and alimentary track of cattle and other mammals.
(Bovine Papillomavirus, NCI Thesaurus)
I had lost my hold on Black Peter and was stranded in London without a shilling.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is a non-enveloped, icosahedral virus that contains a single-stranded linear DNA genome; approximately equal proportions of DNA of positive and negative sense are found in separate particles.
(Parvovirus B19, NCI Thesaurus)
A family of very small DNA viruses containing a single linear molecule of single-stranded DNA and consisting of two subfamilies: parvovirinae and densovirinae.
(Parvovirus, NCI Thesaurus)
The genome is composed of non-segmented, double-stranded DNA.
(Parapoxvirus, NCI Thesaurus)
