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In microbiology, a filamentous or threadlike structure.

- anticoding s. the s. of duplex DNA which is used as a template for the synthesis of mRNA. SYN: antisense s..

- antiparallel s. a macromolecular s. that is oriented in the opposite direction of a neighboring s..

- antisense s. SYN: anticoding s..

- coding s. the s. of duplex DNA that has the same sequence as the mRNA (except that mRNA contains ribonucleotides instead of deoxyribonucleotides). SYN: sense s..

- complementary s. replicative form.

- minus s. replicative form.

- plus s. replicative form.

- sense s. SYN: coding s..

- viral s. replicative form.

strand 'strand n something (as a molecular chain) resembling a thread <a \strand of DNA>