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translocation (trans″lo-ka´shәn) movement of a substance from one place to another; used particularly for movement within a biological fluid or across a biological membrane. movement of the ribosome from one codon to the next along the messenger RNA (mRNA) in protein synthesis. the transfer of a fragment of one chromosome to a nonhomologous chromosome. Abbreviated t. reciprocal translocation(rcp)
the complete mutual exchange of fragments between two broken nonhomologous chromosomes, one part of one uniting with part
of the other, with no fragments left over. robertsonian translocation
translocation involving two acrocentric chromosomes, which each break at the centromere region; the long arms of each then
fuse at the centromere region and their short arms are lost.
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