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Translocation vs Retrotranslocation - What's the difference?

translocation | retrotranslocation |

As nouns the difference between translocation and retrotranslocation

is that translocation is removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another while retrotranslocation is (biochemistry) the reverse process of translocation.

translocation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.
    • There happened certain translocations at the deluge. — Woodward.
  • (genetics) A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.

    • Related terms

    * translocate

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    retrotranslocation

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biochemistry) The reverse process of translocation