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translocate

/træns'loʊkeɪt/

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verb
move from one place to another, especially of wild animals
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"The endangered turtles were translocated to a safe environment"

type of:
transfer
verb
transfer (a chromosomal segment) to a new position
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type of:
shift transfer

Definition that contains translocate

transposon a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole)
jumping gene a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole)