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triparental

triparental adjective: involving three parents, but especially describing a form of bacterial conjugation in which a conjugative plasmid present in a "helper" bacterial strain assists the transfer of plasmid from a second to a third strain.

Adjective

triparental (not comparable)

  1. Involving three parents, but especially describing a form of bacterial conjugation in which a conjugative plasmid present in a "helper" bacterial strain assists the transfer of plasmid from a second to a third strain.

Origin of triparental

From tri- + parental.

Questions about triparental

What does triparental mean?
Triparental means involving three parents, but especially describing a form of bacterial conjugation in which a conjugative plasmid present in a "helper" bacterial strain assists the transfer of plasmid from a second to a third strain.
What part of speech is triparental?
Triparental is an adjective.

Words near triparental in the dictionary

  1. tripara
  2. triparalogous
  3. triparametric
  4. triparanol
  5. triparas
  6. triparental
  7. tripart
  8. triparted
  9. tripartible
  10. tripartisan
  11. tripartisanism

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