Antisense strand. Definition. noun, plural: antisense strands. Strand of DNA running from 3' to 5' complementing the sense strand, and is not transcribed into mRNA. Supplement. The antisense strand of DNA is not the strand used to make mRNA but the sense strand. However, since the antisense strand complements the sense strand, the former would have the same nucleotide sequence as that of the mRNA following transcription. Also called:
Full Definition of VERNACULAR. 1. a: using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language b: of, relating to, or being a nonstandard language or dialect of a place, region, or country c: of, relating to, or being the normal spoken form of a language.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Vernacular geography is the sense of place that is revealed in ordinary people's language. Current research by the Ordnance Survey is attempting to understand the way people talk about their spatial environment and say where things are within it.hen people refer to geographical regions in a vernacular form they are commonly referred to as imprecise regions. Regions can include areas of a country such as the American Midwest, the British Midlands, the Swiss Alps, the south east of England and southern California.