heavy strand

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(thing) by BioTech (9 mon) (print)   (I like it!) Sat Oct 19 2002 at 18:09:46

The strand of a double-stranded DNA molecule that is more buoyant than the other and floats at the top of a column when the DNA is denatured and put in an equilibrium centrifuge. Also called the H strand.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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