Three-parent
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Three-parent is an adjective meaning (of a person) Having three genetic parents; that is, having been produced by a process in which the nucleus of one egg is inserted into the cytoplasm of another egg, which contains mitochondrial DNA, and then the hybrid egg is fertilized by a sperm.
Meaning
(of a person) Having three genetic parents; that is, having been produced by a process in which the nucleus of one egg is inserted into the cytoplasm of another egg, which contains mitochondrial DNA, and then the hybrid egg is fertilized by a sperm.
Example Sentences
As transformative as are the medical benefits of three-parent children, the social rewards should not be overlooked.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include trizygotic, triparental, trigenic, triplomutant, trispecific, trigenomic.
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