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Meaning of heterology in English:

heterology

noun

Medicine Biology

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‘At the MAT locus, parental alleles in diploids differ by a heterology of 700 bp.’
  • ‘In several studies, mismatches resulting in as little as 1% heterology were sufficient to significantly reduce mitotic recombination.’
  • ‘Another explanation of recombination rate variation along Allium chromosomes may be the presence of sequence heterologies in the distal parts of A. roylei and A. fistulosum chromosomes.’
  • ‘Further experiments were conducted to determine whether the heterology created by the pSV2neo vector backbone in pC M1-6 C reduced the frequency of gene targeting.’
  • ‘A single nucleotide heterology was shown to inhibit recombination in bacteria, in yeast, and in mammalian cells.’