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<molecular biology> A word or sentence that reads the same backwards as it does forward, such as radar.
A nucleic acid sequence whose 5'-to-3' sequence is identical on each DNA strand. The sequence is the same when one strand is read left to right and the other strand is read right to left. Recognition sites of many restriction enzymes are palindromic.
(09 Oct 1997)
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