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insociable (medicine) and sticky ends (medicine)


insociable (medicine)


insociable


1. Incapable of being associated, joined, or connected. "Lime and wood are insociable." (Sir H. Wotton)

2. Not sociable or companionable; disinclined to social intercourse or conversation; unsociable; taciturn. "This austere insociable life." (Shak)

Origin: L. Insociabilis: cf. F. Insociable. See In- not, and Sociable.

Source: Websters Dictionary


sticky ends (medicine)


sticky ends


The short stretches of single stranded DNA produced by cutting DNA with restriction endonucleases whose site of cleavage is not at the axis of symmetry. The cut generates two complementary sequences that will hybridise (stick) to one another or to the sequences on Other DNA fragments produced by the same restriction endonuclease.