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recolonize |
recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid |
recombinant dna |
recombinant dna technology |
recombinant human insulin |
recombination
| recombine
| recomfort
| recomfortless
| recomforture
| recommence
recombination
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun recombination has 2 senses
- recombination(n = noun.event) Array - (physics) a combining of charges or transfer of electrons in a gas that results in the neutralization of ions; important for ions arising from the passage of high-energy particles; Array is a kind of combine, combining
- recombination(n = noun.event) Array - (genetics) a combining of genes or characters different from what they were in the parents; Array is a kind of combine, combining
Derived form verb recombine3
Derived forms verb recombine2, verb recombine1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
recombination, n. Biol. the rearrangement, esp. by crossing over in chromosomes, of nucleic acid molecules forming a new sequence of the constituent nucleotides.
ROGET THESAURUS
recombination
Interchange
N interchange, exchange, commutation, permutation, intermutation, reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement, shuffling, alternation, reciprocity, castling (at chess), hocus-pocus, interchangeableness, interchangeability, recombination, combination, barter, tit for tat, cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock, quid pro quo, interchanged, reciprocal, mutual, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent, combinatorial, recombinant, in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis, backwards and forwards, by turns, turn and turn about, each in his turn, everyone in his turn.
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