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complementarily

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com·ple·men·ta·ry   (kŏm'plə-měn'tə-rē, -trē)   
adj.  
  1. Forming or serving as a complement; completing.

  2. Supplying mutual needs or offsetting mutual lacks.

  3. Genetics Of or relating to a group of genes that act in concert to produce a specific phenotype.

  4. Biochemistry Of or relating to the specific pairing of the purines and pyrimidines between strands of a DNA or an RNA molecule.

com'ple·men'ta·ri·ly (-tə-rə-lē, -trə-lē, -měn-târ'ə-lē) adv., com'ple·men'ta·ri·ness n.
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