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incompatibility
[in″kom-pat″ĭ-bil´ĭ-te]the quality of being incompatible.
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in·com·pat·i·bil·i·ty
(in'kom-pat'i-bil'i-tē),1. The quality of being incompatible.
2. A means of classifying bacterial plasmids; two plasmids are incompatible if they cannot coexist in one host cell.
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incompatibility
Transfusion medicine See Transfusion reaction. See ABO incompatibility, Rh incompatibility.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
in·com·pat·i·bil·i·ty
(in'kŏm-pat'i-bil'i-tē)1. The quality of being incompatible.
2. A means of classifying bacterial plasmids; two plasmids are incompatible if they cannot coexist in one host cell.
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incompatibility
- a mismatch between cells of different organisms. see SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY.
- the inability of particular PLASMIDS (within the same incompatibility group) to co-exist in the same cell line.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
in·com·pat·i·bil·i·ty
(in'kŏm-pat'i-bil'i-tē)1. The quality of being incompatible.
2. A means of classifying bacterial plasmids.
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