Word.ws English Dictionary

endoreplication

endoreplication noun: replication of the nuclear genome without cell division.

Noun

endoreplication (plural endoreplications)

  1. replication of the nuclear genome without cell division
    • A recent study suggested that enhanced induction of endoreplication after the second exposure could be responsible for the priming effect in mosquitoes [70 ].2015 July 17, “Bacterial Exposure at the Larval Stage Induced Sexual Immune Dimorphism and Priming in Adult Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of endoreplication

pluralendoreplications

Origin of endoreplication

From endo- + replication.

Questions about endoreplication

What does endoreplication mean?
Endoreplication means replication of the nuclear genome without cell division.
What part of speech is endoreplication?
Endoreplication is a noun.
What is the plural of endoreplication?
The plural of endoreplication is endoreplications.

Words near endoreplication in the dictionary

  1. endorelations
  2. endorepellin
  3. endoreplicate
  4. endoreplicated
  5. endoreplicating
  6. endoreplication
  7. endoreplications
  8. endoreplicative
  9. endores
  10. endoresection
  11. endoresections

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: endoreplication (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “endoreplication.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/endoreplication. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.