Terminally redundant
DNA is DNA that contains repeated sequences at each end called
terminal repeat
A long terminal repeat (LTR) is a pair of identical sequences of DNA, several hundred base pairs long, which occur in eukaryotic genomes on either end of a series of genes or pseudogenes that form a retrotransposon or an endogenous retrovirus or ...
s. These ends are used (e.g. in
virus T4) to join the ends of the linear DNA to form a cyclic DNA.
The term was first coined by Dr. Michael London in 1964.
References
Repetitive DNA sequences
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