translocation
The English word “translocation” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.
- A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.
- A transfer of a molecule through a membrane.
Etymology
From trans- + location.
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