base analog

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(thing) by BioTech (9 mon) (print)   (I like it!) Fri Nov 12 2004 at 21:08:50

A chemical which resembles a nucleotide base. A base which does not normally appear in DNA but can substitute for the ones which do, despite minor differences in structure.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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