Merozygote is a state when a cell, usually bacterial, is temporarily diploid as result of DNA transfer processes like conjugation. One example of how merozygotes can be formed is the transfer of genetic material during an HFR transformation. In HFR transformation, an F+ prokaryote transfers its F-factor into an Hfr cell. This F-factor plasmid is i...
Found on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merozygote
<microbiology> A bacterium that is in part haploid and in part diploid because it has acquired exogenous genetic material for example during transduction or conjugation. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
Found on
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20973
A bacterium that is in part haploid and in part diploid because it has acquired exogenous genetic material eg. during transduction or conjugation.
Found on
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php
Type: Term Pronunciation: mer′ō-zī′gōt Definitions: 1. In microbial genetics, an organism that, in addition to its own original genome (endogenote), contains a fragment (exogenote) of a genome from another organism; the relatively small size of the exogenote permits a diploid condition for only a limited region of the end...
Found on
http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=54319
merozygote A bacterial mechanism of gene transfer in which part of the genome, or chromosome complement, is transferred into an intact recipient cell.
Found on
http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2763/4
No exact match found.
