Meaning of copy number | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The number of copies of a gene or plasmid within a cell's genome.
2. The identification number assigned to a specific copy of a work.

Examples

“"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.”

“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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