verb
- past tense and past participle of cotransfer; transferred together with something else, especially in genetics when genes or traits are inherited together on the same chromosome
Usage: technical; genetics
Examples
- The two genes were cotransferred to the offspring during reproduction.
- In the bacterial conjugation experiment, the marker genes were cotransferred along with the resistance plasmid.
- The researchers observed that the traits were cotransferred, indicating they were linked on the same DNA segment.
- When the parent cell divided, the organelles were cotransferred to both daughter cells.