| duplication | 1. The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold. 2. <biology> The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells. <mathematics> Duplication of the cube, the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube. Origin: L. Duplicatio: cf. F. Duplication. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| duplication cyst | A congenital cystic malformation attached to or originating from any part of the alimentary canal, from the base of the tongue to the anus, which reproduces the structure of the adjacent alimentary tract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| duplication of chromosomes | A chromosome aberration resulting from unequal crossing over or exchange of segments between two homologous chromosomes; one chromosome of the pair loses a small segment, while the other gains this segment; the chromosome gaining the segment has undergone duplication while its homologue has undergone deletion. See: haemoglobin Lepore. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gene duplication | <molecular biology> A class of DNA rearrangement that generates a supernumerary copy of a gene in the genome. This would allow each gene to evolve independently to produce distinct functions. Such a set of evolutionarily related genes can be called a gene family. (18 Nov 1997) |
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