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DNA, Complementary

"DNA, Complementary" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Single-stranded complementary DNA synthesized from an RNA template by the action of RNA-dependent DNA polymerase. cDNA (i.e., complementary DNA, not circular DNA, not C-DNA) is used in a variety of molecular cloning experiments as well as serving as a specific hybridization probe.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "DNA, Complementary" by people in this website by year, and whether "DNA, Complementary" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 25 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2002 and 2005 and 2008
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