Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

identical by state

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English

Syllables: iden-ti-cal by s-tate
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Being two identical alleles or two identical segments or sequences of DNA; being segments which are not identical by descent and therefore do not share a recent common ancestor.

Phrases

identical by descent

Frequently Paired Words

identical by descent

Questions

What does identical by state mean?: Being two identical alleles or two identical segments or sequences of DNA; being segments which are not identical by descent and therefore do not share a recent common ancestor.

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