complementarity

complementarity definition - medical

com·ple·men·tar·i·ty (kŏmˌplə-mĕn-tărˈĭ-tē)

noun
  1. The correspondence or similarity between nucleotides or strands of nucleotides of DNA and RNA molecules that allows precise pairing.
  2. The affinity that an antigen and an antibody have for each other as a result of the chemical arrangement of their combining sites.

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