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(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..
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Triparental means (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..
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