mispairedadj.
/ˌmɪsˈpɛːd/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈpɛ(ə)rd/ Wrongly or inappropriately paired; (Molecular Biology) designating a base pair or longer sequence of nucleic acid that exhibits mispairing.
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1765 W. Stevenson Orig. Poems ii. 253 Who dare the Hymeneal rites profane, Concord's chaste joys with souls mispair'd to taste?
1964 Shakespeare Q. 15 120 Puck..can delight in the consequences of his error, and we do too—the follies of mispaired doting lovers, their excessive praises and dispraises, [etc.].
1967 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 57 356 Crossing-over between mispaired, nonidentical genes might be far more frequent in a system containing a number of tandem duplications.
1973 Q. Rev. Biol. 48 572 Hyperchromicity is reduced only in proportion to the fraction of mispaired bases.
1985 Science 20 Sept. 1278/2 Mutations may be prevented from arising by enzymes that recognise and remove a mispaired base in DNA.
1990 Nucleic Acids Res. 18 4075/1 The DNA helix is a normal B form and both mispaired bases are intrahelical and hydrogen bonded with one another in a wobble geometry.
1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 27 May Romantic comedy with mispaired stars which misfires badly.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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