Recombinational Repair At Biology Glossary

What is it? The repair of a DNA lesion through a process, similar to recombination, that uses recombination enzymes.

Bio Definition Added By: Jordan

Send To Friends!

If you'd like to send the Recombinational Repair definition to yourself or to your friends/colleagues, just enter the e-mail addresses in the boxes below -

We hope you now understand the meaning of Recombinational Repair. If you need any more information on this term, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Other Similar Biology Terms:

Bio Term Anabaena is a genus of filamentous cyanobacteria in which filaments when viewed under the microscope resemble strings of beads. Thick-walled, clear heterocysts can be seen at intervals along or at the ends of the filaments.

Bio Term Reciprocal crosses is Pairs of genetic crosses which in one case DNA from strain #1 is transferred into strain #2 and in the second case the strain #2 is used as a donor to transfer the same region into strain #1. For example

Bio Term hepatic caeca is A blind-ending sac in the digestive system, which occurs in mammals at the junction of the small and large intestines. In herbivores the cecum contains bacteria that produce cellulase, enabling breakdown of cellulose cell walls.

Bio Term adenine is A purine base that pairs with thymine in the DNA double helix. See purines.

Bio Term Stop (nonsense) codon is A UAG, UAA. or UGA codons which is not representing any cognate aminoacyl tRNA in most organisms. When the ribosome encounters a stop codon in the mRNA, a termination factor interacts with the ribosome causing polypeptide synthesis to stop and the ribosom