Mosaic

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Mosaicism or genetic mosaicism is a condition in which a multicellular organism possesses more than one genetic line as the result of genetic mutation. This means that various genetic lines resulted from a single fertilized egg.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Mosaic (genetics)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Louise Wolff --darina 23:22, 6 May 2005 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.