diploinsufficiency

noun

The state of a diploid organism having only a single copy of a particular gene, the other copy being inactivated due to mutation

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Meanings

noundiploinsufficiency (countable and uncountable, plural diploinsufficiencies)

plural diploinsufficiencies

  1. countableuncountablebiologyThe state of a diploid organism having only a single copy of a particular gene, the other copy being inactivated due to mutation

Origin

From diplo- + insufficiency.

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APA

diploinsufficiency. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diploinsufficiency

MLA

“diploinsufficiency.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diploinsufficiency. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “diploinsufficiency,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diploinsufficiency.

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