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English
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Adjective
consomic (not comparable)
- (genetics, of a strain) inbred and with one of its chromosomes replaced by the homologous chromosome of another inbred strain via a series of marker-assisted backcrosses
Derived terms
Noun
consomic (plural consomics)
- (genetics) Such an organism