translocate

/trænzˈloʊkeɪt/
verb
  1. To move something from one place to another, especially to a new location.
    • The company will translocate its headquarters to a larger city next year.
    • The zoo decided to translocate the endangered birds to a safer habitat.
    • Scientists translocate the plants to protect them from the construction project.
  2. In biology, to move a chromosome segment to a new position within the genome.
    • Researchers observed how the genes translocate during cell division.
    • The cancer cells showed a tendency to translocate genetic material abnormally.
    • The mutation caused a piece of chromosome 5 to translocate to chromosome 8.
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