sticky end

1. 1.

   an end of DNA in which one strand of the double helix extends a few units beyond the other

   Broaderdeoxyribonucleic acid

Questions about sticky end

What does sticky end mean?

sticky end means "an end of DNA in which one strand of the double helix extends a few units beyond the other".

Is sticky end a common word?

sticky end is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.