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move from one place to another, especially of wild animals
The endangered turtles were translocated to a safe environment - transfer (a chromosomal segment) to a new position
How To Use translocate In A Sentence
- Translocate fifteen degrees sub-axial to hemispherical concrescence of poly-carbon interface. Asimov's Science Fiction
- Seed crops will receive either diquat or glufosinate-ammonium instead because glyphosate can be translocated into seed and affect subsequent germination. FWi - All News
- Intense management efforts have helped build up the populations of the Seychelles magpie robin on Frégate Island, and to translocate it to other islands. Granitic Seychelles forests
- Photosynthetic gain in a plant is maximized by shedding older leaves only when photosynthesis by retranslocated nitrogen in new leaves exceeds the photosynthesis of the leaves lost.
- In experiments one usually measures the time it takes one voltage-driven single-stranded DNA to translocate through the [alpha] hemolysin channel of a known structure.
- The up to 50 birds to be translocated will be sourced from Codfish Island and a number of captive holding sites, and will be fully health screened prior to departure.
- The saddleback, a black wattlebird with a tan saddle of feathers on its back and a pendulous orange wattle at the base of its bill, has been translocated 27 times since 1925 and now inhabits approximately 16 islands.
- But studies carried out in recent years have highlighted a range of problems faced by translocated monkeys.
- Whenever the Department of Conservation translocates birds and other species, whenever it opens a new facility, there are karakia from tohunga and ministers.
- To allow for the next round of transcription initiation RNA polymerase has to translocate about 60 base pairs.