tetraparental

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adjective

Involving four parents, but especially involving two integrated but genetically different embryos

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Meanings

adjectivetetraparental (not comparable)
  1. not comparableInvolving four parents, but especially involving two integrated but genetically different embryos

    All pARM47-based constructs contain two promoters, the vector-containing lac promoter and the sypA promoter, and were inserted into the chromosomal Tn 7 site of V. fischeri strains using tetraparental conjugation ( McCann et al., 2003 ).

    2015 July 28, Cecilia M. Thompson, Karen L. Visick, “Assessing the function of STAS domain protein SypA in Vibrio fischeri using a comparative analysis”, in Frontiers in Microbiology, volume 6, →DOI

Origin

From tetra- + parental.

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Chicago

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