Biology A-Level
fragment assembly
What fragment assembly means in Biology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of fragment assembly
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Computer software finds the overlaps between reads and assembles them back into the complete sequence.
Topics that use fragment assembly
- Using genome projects (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- comparing species
- genome
- introns and exons
- memory cells
- non-coding DNA
- potential antigens
- regulatory genes
- splicing
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