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DNA annealing (medicine)


DNA annealing
<molecular biology> The reformation of double stranded DNA from thermally denatured DNA. The rate of reassociation depends upon the degree of repetition and is slowest for unique sequences (this is the basis of the Cot value).


divorce 1, noun (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: French; Origin: Latin divertere 'to divert, leave one's husband']
[U and C] the legal ending of a Marriage
-see also separation separation
::Why doesn't she get a Divorce ?
::In Britain, one in three marriages ends in Divorce .
file/sue/petition for Divorce
(=start the legal Divorce process)
::His wife had threatened to start Divorce proceedings .
::the rise in the Divorce rate
::She received the house as part of the Divorce settlement (=the amount of money, property etc each person receives in a Divorce case) .
::The Act extended the grounds (=legal reasons) for Divorce .
[C usually singular] formal the fact of separating two related things
Divorce between
::the Divorce between theory and method