NOUN
- an end of DNA in which one strand of the double helix extends a few units beyond the other
How To Use sticky end In A Sentence
- Any unfancied teams remaining in the competition by that stage have done well to get that far, and can expect to meet a sticky end rather soon.
- Secondly, the preamplified DNA fragments were digested by a restriction endonuclease to form sticky ends, which were then ligated to a designed DNA adapter by ligase.
- Being mathematicians, they elected to name their firstborn after someone called Hypatia of Alexandria, a Neoplatonist philosopher who met a sticky end when, presumably having pissed off the wrong people the Antiplatonists? she was stripped naked and flayed with oyster shells before being burned alive. Confetti Confidential
- This is now officially the longest heatwave in almost four decades and it has almost certainly come to a sticky end. Times, Sunday Times
- This is now officially the longest heatwave in almost four decades and it has almost certainly come to a sticky end. Times, Sunday Times
- telomeres act as caps to keep the sticky ends of chromosomes from randomly clumping together
- She is the one who came to such a sticky end. Richard Temple
- He comes to a sticky end halfway through the film.
