transvection

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  1. The act of conveying or carrying over.
  2. In mathematics, the operation of obtaining a covariant by operating upon one with another.

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  • Moreover, ncRNA-directed regulatory circuits underpin most, if not all, complex genetic phenomena in eukaryotes, including RNA interference-related processes such as transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene silencing, position effect variegation, hybrid dysgenesis, chromosome dosage compensation, parental imprinting and allelic exclusion, paramutation, and possibly transvection and transinduction. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. from Latin transvectio (n-), a passing or carrying over, from transvehere, past participle transvectus, carry over, transport, from trans, over, + vehere, carry, convey: see vehicle.
 

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