interorganellular

adjective

Relating to, or functioning via interaction between organelles.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectiveinterorganellular (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerarebiologyRelating to, or functioning via interaction between organelles.

    The hypothesis that the fusion of the two chloroplasts, just like nuclear fusion, brings together the ct-DNA from parental types resulting in an “interorganellular gene recombination" by physical exchange of pieces of DNA is very attractive […]

    1982, Advances in Agronomy, page 127

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