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What is palindrome? In biology

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Answer: Palindrome is a DNA segment which have inverted repeats of base sequence.

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Palindromes are sequences of double stranded DNA wihich have two fold symmetry. The repeated DNA sequences in a palindrome are self-complementary within each strand and have the capacity of forming hairpin or cross-shaped structures.

Example of a palindrome:

TTAGCACGTGCTAA

AATCGTGCACGATT

In English language, palindrome is a word or phrase that is spelt identically either forward or backward

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