Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A change of location.
- noun A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome.
- noun A chromosomal segment that is translocated.
- noun Botany The movement of sap downward and upward within the phloem, bringing nutrients to all living parts of a plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of translocating, or the state of being translocated. Also
translocalization .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Removal of things from one place to another;displacement ;substitution of one thing for another. - noun genetics A
transfer of achromosomal segment to a newposition , especially on anonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (genetics) an exchange of chromosome parts
- noun the transport of dissolved material within a plant
Etymologies
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Examples
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This genetic event was termed a translocation—the flip-flop transposition of two pieces of chromosomes.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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This genetic event was termed a translocation—the flip-flop transposition of two pieces of chromosomes.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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This genetic event was termed a translocation—the flip-flop transposition of two pieces of chromosomes.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Present view of protein translocation across the ER membrane.
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These forms of leukemia share a common molecular abnormality called a translocation in which a gene on chromosome 11 breaks and becomes joined with one of many genes on different chromosomes.
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Just over half, 51%, had one or more cancer gene mutations or an abnormality called a translocation, in which a section of DNA gets incorporated into the wrong chromosome.
Multiple gene test allows more targeted treatment of cancer 2011
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The rearranged genetic region, called a translocation, leads to the production of a fusion gene and an abnormal protein and, ultimately, to leukemia.
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The rearranged genetic region, called a translocation, leads to the production of a fusion gene and an abnormal protein and, ultimately, to leukemia.
unknown title 2009
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Beginning in 1972, she made a number of remarkable discoveries, including the landmark finding that an abnormally short chromosome associated with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) was not a chromosome deletion, as many scientists had thought, but an exchange (known as a translocation) of segments between two chromosomes.
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The rearranged genetic region, called a translocation, leads to the production of a fusion gene and an abnormal protein and, ultimately, to leukemia.
unknown title 2009
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Key among those efforts is translocation—the practice of moving animals from one area to another to avoid inbreeding, reduce overcrowding, and shield them from poachers.
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