noun

• Synthetic DNA in which the sequence of bases is complementary to that of a given example of DNA.

  ‘A DNA sequence is amplified from genomic DNA or cDNA using a high fidelity polymerase.’

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  • ‘Genomic and cDNA sequences are presented at the top and at the bottom, respectively.’
  • ‘We observed an accumulation of cDNA loci near the centromere for seven chromosomes.’
  • ‘However, until now, only one paper has reported using barley cDNA microarrays for transcriptome analysis.’
  • ‘Some rat cDNA clones were also sequenced to fill gaps and to confirm splice sites.’