translocation noun. [translǝ'keɪʃ(ǝ)n, trɑ:ns-, -nz-] E17.
[from TRANS- + LOCATION, orig. perh. after translation.]
1. Removal from one place to another; displacement; esp. relocation of wild animal populations. E17.
National Geographic The translocation of three troops [of baboons]..to..sparsely inhabited country.

2. Physiology & Biochemistry. Transport of dissolved substances within an organism, esp. in the phloem of a plant. Also, diffusion of a substance across a cell membrane, assisted by a transport process. L19.

3. Genetics. Removal of a section of a chromosome and its insertion into a new position on the same or a different chromosome; an instance of this; a portion of a chromosome that is so moved. E20.

■ 'translocase noun [-ASE] Biochemistry an enzyme which catalyses translocation of a substance across a membrane M20.

■ translocational adjective M20.

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