Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is composed of four types of nucleotide bases: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). The adenine (A) on one strand always pairs with the thymine (T) on the other strand, whereas cytosine (C) always pairs...

(cDNA) Deoxyribonycleic acid (DNA) which is made using a template of MESSENGER RNA (mRNA), to produce a complementary piece of DNA. This process is achieved using a viral enzyme called reverse transcriptase and provides a stable copy of the gene which...

In genetics, complementary DNA (cDNA) is DNA synthesized from a mature mRNA template in a reaction catalysed by the enzyme reverse transcriptase. cDNA is often used to clone eukaryotic genes in...