duplication

Meaning

Noun

• The act of duplicating.
• A folding over; a fold.
• The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.
• The act of copying a nucleotide sequence from one chromosome to another.
• A nucleotide sequence copied through such a process.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French, from Late Latin duplicatio, from Latin duplico.
• Morphologically duplicate + -ion