Refers to the direction of the DNA strands which are double stranded with the top strand in the orientation of 5' to 3'. The bottom strand is complimentary to the top strand and is in the reverse orientation of 3' to 5'. For the top strand, 3' is also denoted by the term downstream.
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(2005). 3'. In: Vohr, HW. (eds) Encyclopedic Reference of Immunotoxicology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27806-0_1
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