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Hypernyms (Type of)

  1. copy
  2. copying

What Google Knows

Gene duplication is a major mechanism through which new genetic material is generated during molecular evolution. It can be defined as any duplication of a region of DNA that contains a gene.

Related Definition

  1. duplication:

    n The act of duplicating.

    n A folding over; a fold.

    n (biology) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.

    n (genetics) The act of copying a nucleotide sequence from one chromosome to another.

    n (genetics) A nucleotide sequence copied through such a process.


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