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insertional

insertional

7.6
About putting something into the body or cells during medical treatment
  • adjective
  • /ɪnˈsɜrʃənl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : insercional
  • The geneticist explained that insertional changes can lead to significant variations in a species' traits.

Examples

  • Expectedly, as an adaptive defense mechanism, the amount of protective DNA varies from one species to another based on the insertional mutagenesis activity and the evolutionary constraints on genome size.

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  • The researchers examined the effects of insertional mutations on plant growth in the laboratory.

  • As discussed in the original paper (1) and these mini-essays, the so-called jDNA serves as a defense mechanism against insertional mutagenesis, which in humans and many other multicellular species can lead to cancer.

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  • Doctors studied insertional techniques to improve the success rates of certain surgical procedures.

Synonyms

insertive
vsinsertional
  • Specialized
7.8

Relating to putting something into the body during medical treatment

is used for effects or results that follow from those actions

Compounds

insertional mutagenesis
  • Specialized
9.1

A change in a gene when new DNA inserts and stops it working

Surface Forms

insertional positive

Morphology

insertional = insertion (semi-transparent) = insert + ion + al

The adjective is built regularly from the noun 'insertion' plus '-al', but the technical biological or medical sense is specialized and not fully predictable for all learners.

Etymology

Insertional comes from the common word insert, which means 'to put in', and from insertion meaning 'the act of putting in'. So insertional describes something related to putting a device or a gene into the body and the effects that come from that action.