Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sticky_end

1 sense of sticky end

Sense 1
sticky end -- (an end of DNA in which one strand of the double helix extends a few units beyond the other)
       => deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA -- ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information; "DNA is the king of molecules")