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duplication

/djuː.plɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/ · noun

Meaning

  1. The act of duplicating.
  2. A folding over; a fold.
  3. The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.
  4. The act of copying a nucleotide sequence from one chromosome to another.
  5. A nucleotide sequence copied through such a process.

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Sources

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