intergenetic

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adjective

Pertaining to multiple genera.

“interspecific and intergenetic hybridization”

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Meanings

adjectiveintergenetic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyPertaining to multiple genera.

    interspecific and intergenetic hybridization

  2. not comparablebiologyOf or pertaining to multiple genes.

    In addition, H3S10ph associates to the 26S and 18S rDNA transcriptional units but is excluded from the non-transcribed intergenetic space (Granot et al. 2009).

    2014, Raúl Alvarez-Venegas, Clelia De la Peña, Juan Armando Casas-Mollano, Epigenetics in Plants of Agronomic Importance: Fundamentals and Applications: Transcriptional Regulation and Chromatin Remodelling in Plants, Springer, →ISBN, page 57
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    My own intuition is that beneficial genetic mutations do not emerge merely as random errors in genetic copying but emerge inevitably when the optimum intergenetic and thermodynamic conditions

    2010, Christina Anne Knight, The Short Range Anti-Gravitational Force and The Hierarchically Stratified Space-Time Geometry in 12 Dimensions, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 12

    The characteristic diversity of the hypertrophic CMP phenotype is attributable to the intergenetic heterogeneity (with a variety of mutations encoding protein components of the cardiac sarcomere)

    2012, Ziad Issa, John M. Miller, Douglas P. Zipes, Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease: Expert Consult: Online and Print, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 618
  3. not comparablehuman sciencesPertaining to multiple languages with different roots.

    Intra- and intergenetic language contact led to intermediate stages of simplification of the system (Luwo, Thuri) without necessarily involving fundamental typological changes.

    2003, Studies in African Linguistics

Origin

From inter- + genetic.

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