MOSAICISM

mosaicism

(noun) the condition in which an organism has two or more cell populations that differ in genetic makeup

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

mosaicism (countable and uncountable, plural mosaicisms)

(genetics) The condition in which more than one genetically distinct population of cells coexist within one individual.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

18 January 2025

SHTIK

(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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