genome duplication

collocation in English

meaningsofgenomeandduplication

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genome
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdʒiː.nəʊm/us
/ˈdʒiː.noʊm/
the complete set of genetic material of a human, animal, plant, or other ...
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duplication
noun[U]
uk
/ˌdʒuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌduː.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the act or process of making an exact copy ...
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(Definition ofgenomeandduplicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Polyploidy (wholesalegenomeduplication) is common in plants and constitutes an important method of speciation.
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The gymnosperms include conifers, cycads, gnetales and ginkgos and these may have appeared as a result of a wholegenomeduplicationevent which took place about 319 million years ago.
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However,genomeduplicationalone is insufficient to develop complex biochemical pathways or novel cell structures.
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Relative to other grasses, rice appears to have few duplicated genomic regions, although genome sequencing has and will continue to uncover some regions ofgenomeduplication.
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Two rounds of wholegenomeduplicationin the ancestral vertebrate.
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This may arise from speciation events, or through whole or partialgenomeduplicationevents (e.g. polyploidy).
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This appears to have been the result of a wholegenomeduplicationevent around.
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Wholegenomeduplicationis common in fungi as well as plant species.
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It has been found that almost all flowering plants have undergone at least one round ofgenomeduplicationat some point during their evolutionary history.
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This is thought to be related to their having undergone more polyploidization, orgenomeduplicationevents.
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Some of them might interfere in the normal process of chromosomal segregation, causinggenomeduplication.
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In fact, there is evidence that following wholegenomeduplicationor duplication at a single locus is strongly affected by the number of connections/network space the gene maintains.
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However, the recent completion of the amphioxus genome sequence provides support for the hypothesis of two rounds of wholegenomeduplication, followed by loss of duplicate copies of most genes.
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Early findings have shown that "lepa" and "lepb" share low interspecies aa identity, and are argued to have arisen through wholegenomeduplication, which occurred early in the teleost lineage.
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Polyploidy is common in plants, but historically has also occurred in animals, with two rounds of wholegenomeduplicationin the vertebrate lineage leading to humans.
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