Mosaicism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mosaicism is a noun meaning (genetics) The condition in which more than one genetically distinct population of cells coexist within one individual.
Meaning
(genetics) The condition in which more than one genetically distinct population of cells coexist within one individual.
Example Sentences
Some but not all of the cells that made up the fetus […] had an extra chromosome on the twentieth pair. A mosaicism, it was called.
Word Forms
- mosaicisms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include confined, mozaicism, mosaic, polymitosis, mixoploidy, multiploid.
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