English Dictionary

copy number

noun

(genetics) The number of copies of a gene or plasmid within a cell's genome. / (library science) The identification number assigned to a specific copy of a work.

The copy number of the document is limited to five.

意味（1）

(genetics) The number of copies of a gene or plasmid within a cell's genome.

Reconstruction or titration experiments consisting of amounts of the linear cloned cDNA equivalent to various gene copy numbers in the genomic DNA are run on the same gel.

意味（2）

(library science) The identification number assigned to a specific copy of a work.

In other words, there was no way to correlate a book's barcode number, by which it was filed in the computer, to its copy number on the shelf list.