duplicant

plural duplicants

1. Something or someone which duplicates something else; a duplicate.

   It is to be expected that such duplicants would become differentiated in the course of time and thus often permit mutation at one step. It has long been evident that inversions of various lengths are common in the course of evolution.

   1984, Sewall Wright, Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 1: Genetic and Biometric Foundations, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 28

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   Complexes containing all subunit duplicants have been purified from whole plants and characterized by MS (Yang et al., 2004; Book et al., 2010). It is not known yet whether duplicants are inserted into the 26S proteasome randomly or […]

   2015, Harvey Millar, Nicolas L Taylor, Sub-cellular Proteomics, Frontiers E-books, →ISBN, page 41