Example Sentences

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Some people think the first self-duplicating molecule was a protein, but other people think it might be nucleic acid.

From Nature • Oct. 12, 2011

These busy "self-duplicating" bodies the scientists called "plasmagenes."

From Time Magazine Archive

But now, with my spirits soaring on the possibility that I had the self-duplicating structure, I reiterated my faith that I knew what happened when bacteria mated.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

And you know, of course, that viruses also have this self-duplicating ability.

From Category Phoenix by Ellanby, Boyd