Definition: 'Exogenote'
exogenote
Type: TermPronunciation: ek′sō-jē′nōt
Definitions:
1. In microbial genetics, the fragment of genetic material that has been transferred from a donor to the recipient and, being homologous for a region of the recipient's original genome (endogenote), produces in the homologous region a condition analogous to diploidy.
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