triparental
Meanings
adj
- 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.
Word forms
Etymology
From tri- + parental.
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