Tetraparental

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Involving four parents, but especially involving two integrated but genetically different embryos not-comparable

    "All pARM47-based constructs contain two promoters, the vector-containing lac promoter and the sypA promoter, and were inserted into the chromosomal Tn 7 site of V. fischeri strains using tetraparental conjugation ( McCann et al., 2003 )."

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"All pARM47-based constructs contain two promoters, the vector-containing lac promoter and the sypA promoter, and were inserted into the chromosomal Tn 7 site of V. fischeri strains using tetraparental conjugation ( McCann et al., 2003 )."

Etymology

From tetra- + parental.

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