trisomy

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Human Genome

Possessing three copies of a particular chromosome instead of the normal two copies. See also cell, gene, chromosome

Possessing three copies of a particular chromosome instead of the normal two copies. See also: cell, gene, gene expression, chromosome

Science› Biotechnology and Genetics

Food Biotechnology

The presence in a diploid cell or organism of an extra chromosome of one homologue (chromosome formula: 2n + 1). See: disomy; monosomic.

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