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Supercooled vs Supercoiled - What's the difference?

supercooled | supercoiled |

As verbs the difference between supercooled and supercoiled

is that supercooled is past tense of supercool while supercoiled is past tense of supercoil.

As an adjective supercooled

is cooled below the transition temperature without the transition occurring.

supercooled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (supercool)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (physics) cooled below the transition temperature without the transition occurring

    • supercoiled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (supercoil)

    • supercoil

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (genetics) A coil of the DNA helix upon itself, such as a figure eight.

    • Related terms

    *supercoiling

    See also

    *topoisomerase *(DNA supercoil)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (genetics) To twist circular DNA into a
  • *{{quote-book, 1995, Sara J. Felts, chapter=Assembly and Transcription of Chromatin Templates Using RNA Polymerase III, In Vitro Transcription and Translation Protocols, editor=Martin J. Tymms citation
    • , passage=After deproteination, the migration of the assembled form II DNA will remain unchanged, appearing not to have been supercoiled by nucleosomes.}}