tandemlyadv.
/ˈtandəmli/ Chiefly Genetics.
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1968 Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 32 328 Cairns' (1966) hypothesis that the long DNA fibers are composed of many tandemly joined replication sections is proved.
1974 Nature 9 Aug. 467/2 Each chromosome contains many tandemly arranged units of replication (replicons), and each replicon is comparable to the whole chromosome of a bacterium or a virus in that its replication is usually bi~directional.
1978 Nature 5 Oct. 364/3 The histone genes of Drosophila represent a tandemly repeated gene family.
1980 European Jrnl. Cell Biol. 22 430 As Hensen's node regresses, paraxial somitomeres are added tandemly.
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