three-parent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. 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.

Word forms

three-parent
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