Duplication

(1) A doubling.reduplication. (2) Inclusion of two copies of the same genetic material in a genome; an important step in diversification of genomes, as in the evolution of the (nonallelic) hemoglobin chains from a common ancestor. SYN: gene duplication. [L. duplicatio, a doubling, fr. duplico, to double]

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