English

Noun

translocation ‎(plural translocations)

1. Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.

   • There happened certain translocations at the deluge. — Woodward.

2. (genetics) A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.

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• translocate

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• triacontanols