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reciprocal translocation

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noun

Genetics.

  1. an exchange of segments between two nonhomologous chromosomes.

Etymology

Origin of reciprocal translocation

First recorded in 1940–45

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Part of chromosome No. 3 was attached to chromosome 8 and vice versa, a condition that geneticists call balanced reciprocal translocation.

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