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What Does The Word "Complementary" Mean, In Biology?

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    The word complementary has a number of meanings. It is used for something that completes the whole or acts as a complement to another thing.

    In Biology it is used for group of genes which act in concert to produce a specific kind of Phenotype. It is also used in Biochemistry while referring to specific pairing of purines and pyrimidines between strands of DNA or RNA molecules.

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    Lily_j  

    answered 1 year ago

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