adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   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. not-comparable

Etymology

From tri- + parental.

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