copy number
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Noun
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copy
number
(
plural
copy numbers
)
(
genetics
)
The number of copies of a
gene
or
plasmid
within a cell's
genome
.
1985
, John H. Dodds,
Plant Genetic Engineering
[1]
,
→ISBN
, page
170
:
"Reconstruction" or "titration" experiments consisting of amounts of the linear cloned cDNA equivalent to various gene
copy numbers
in the genomic DNA are run on the same gel.
(
library science
)
The identification number assigned to a specific
copy
of a
work
.
1987
, Terry D. Webb,
The In-House Option: Professional Issues of Library Automation
[2]
,
→ISBN
, pages
65–66
:
In other words, there was no way to correlate a book's barcode number, by which it was filed in the computer, to its
copy number
on the shelf list.
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