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copy number

noun

Definitions

  1. The number of copies of a gene or plasmid within a cell's genome.

    • "Reconstruction" or "titration" experiments consisting of amounts of the linear cloned cDNA equivalent to various gene copy numbers in the genomic DNA are run on the same gel.

  2. The identification number assigned to a specific copy of a work.

    • In other words, there was no way to correlate a book's barcode number, by which it was filed in the computer, to its copy number on the shelf list.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for copy number. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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