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tetraparental

tetraparental adjective: involving four parents, but especially involving two integrated but genetically different embryos.

Adjective

tetraparental (not comparable)

  1. Involving 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 of tetraparental

From tetra- + parental.

Questions about tetraparental

What does tetraparental mean?
Tetraparental means involving four parents, but especially involving two integrated but genetically different embryos.
What part of speech is tetraparental?
Tetraparental is an adjective.

Words near tetraparental in the dictionary

  1. tetraoxygens
  2. tetrapalladium
  3. tetrapalmitoylated
  4. tetraparalogous
  5. tetraparalysis
  6. tetraparental
  7. tetraparesia
  8. tetraparesis
  9. tetraparetic
  10. tetrapartite
  11. tetraparvovirus

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