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Word: Parasexual
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
1950s. From para- + sexual, noun
Definition:
Designating any form of genetic recombination that occurs by a process other than the fusion of gametes, as (in certain fungi) by the fusion of nuclei, (in bacteria) by conjugation, transduction, or transformation, or (in viruses) by exchange of genes within a host cell.
Definition:
Having sexual aspects but not involving full sexual relations.
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