Nucleic acid hybridization
PHENOMENON IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Hybridisation (molecular biology); DNA hybridization; Dna hybridization; Nucleic acid hybridisation; Hybridization in molecular biology; Hybridization (molecular biology)
In molecular biology, hybridization (or hybridisation) is a phenomenon in which single-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules anneal to complementary DNA or RNA. Though a double-stranded DNA sequence is generally stable under physiological conditions, changing these conditions in the laboratory (generally by raising the surrounding temperature) will cause the molecules to separate into single strands.