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translocation
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translocation [¦tranz·lō′kā·shən]
(botany)
Movement of water, mineral salts, and organic substances from one part of a plant to another.
(cell and molecular biology)
The transfer of a chromosome segment from its usual position to a new position in the same or in a different chromosome.


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Glyphosate translocates in plants, so fewer, larger droplets can be absorbed by plants.
Kennedy translates as she translocates Fidelio, making Beethoven's opera present in her African experience and vice versa.
2006; 8:319-328) reported on the finding that statins cause brain cholesterol to translocate within the plasma membrane, but do not lower brain cholesterol, suggesting that statin effects on cholesterol distribution produces the beneficial effects of the drugs on the brain.
 
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