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Transsection vs Transvection - What's the difference?

transsection | transvection |

As nouns the difference between transsection and transvection

is that transsection is (uncommon) while transvection is (genetics) an epigenetic interaction between an allele on one chromosome and the corresponding allele on the homologous chromosome.

transsection

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncommon)
  • transvection

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (genetics) An epigenetic interaction between an allele on one chromosome and the corresponding allele on the homologous chromosome
  • Transvection effects include both activation and silencing.
  • (mathematics) A kind of linear mapping which leaves all points on one axis fixed, while other points are shifted parallel to the axis by a distance proportional to their perpendicular distance from the axis
  • a projective transvection
  • The act of supernatural flight, such as by a witch
  • *{{quote-book, 1996, Avner Falk, A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews citation
  • , passage=In transvection witches rode broomsticks, a classical phallic symbol. }}

    Synonyms

    *(epigenetic interaction) trans-sensing *(linear mapping) shear

    See also

    *transfection *(wikipedia "transvection") ----