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com·ple·men·tar·i·ty

npl  -ties  :  correspondence in reverse of part of one molecule to part of another: as  a  :  the arrangement of chemical groups and electric charges that enables a combining group of an antibody to combine with a specific determinant group of an antigen or hapten  b  :  the correspondence between strands or nucleotides of DNA or sometimes RNA that permits their precise pairing <evolution of the contemporary genetic code involving purine-pyrimidine -Struther Arnott & P. J. Bond>  .
 
   

 
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