Triparental
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Triparental is an adjective meaning (biology) Involving three parents, but especially describing a form of bacterial conjugation in which a conjugative plasmid present in a "helper" bacterial strain assists the transfer of plasmid from a second to a third strain.
Meaning
(biology) Involving three parents, but especially describing a form of bacterial conjugation in which a conjugative plasmid present in a "helper" bacterial strain assists the transfer of plasmid from a second to a third strain.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mating, diparental, three-parent, trispecific, tritrophic, polybacterial.
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