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Holliday junction
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English
Etymology
en British molecular biologist Robin Holliday = 1932 2014, who proposed it in 1964 to account for homologous recombination in Ustilago maydis species Corn smut.
Noun
en genetics A junction between four strands of DNA. They are a key intermediate in many types of genetic recombination, as well as in double-strand break repair.
Synonyms
en cruciform
en eponyms