Palindrome

Japanese: palindrome

…(4) Palindrome A phrase or sentence that can be read the same way from the front to the back. In English, it is called a palindrome. There are simple ones like “Rice Planting Song” or “Punishment for Burning Bamboo Groves in Chiba” and more elaborate ones like “Awakened from a long night’s sleep, the sound of the boats riding the waves is beautiful” (common people in Edo would write this palindrome on a picture of a treasure ship and put it under their pillows when they slept, hoping to have a good first dream of the year). …

From [DNA]

...Also, the sites on DNA where proteins bind often have symmetric base sequences, so that when the other strand is read backwards, it ends up with the same sequence as the original. Such sequences are called palindromes. This is likely to be to accommodate the symmetry of dimeric and tetrameric proteins. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "palindrome" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…(4)回文　前からも後ろからも同じに読める句や文。英語ではパリンドロームpalindromeという。〈田植え歌〉とか〈千葉の竹やぶ焼けたの罰（ばち）〉のような簡単なものから〈長き夜のとをの眠（ねぶ）りのみな目さめ波のり舟の音のよきかな〉(江戸の庶民は良い初夢を見ようとの願いをこめてこの回文歌を宝船の絵に書きつけ，枕の下に入れて寝たという)といった手のこんだものまである。…