Home › Words › H › heteroplasmidheteroplasmidheteroplasmid means A heteroplasmic plasmid.EtymologyFrom hetero- + plasmid.nounA heteroplasmic plasmidDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.homoplasmid 80% match — A homoplasmic plasmid vs heteroplasmid →heteroplastic 70% match — Of, or relating to heteroplasm vs heteroplasmid →heteroplasm 66% match — Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur. vs heteroplasmid →heteroplastide 64% match — An organism composed of different types of tissue (as most animals and plants) vs heteroplasmid →heterotetraploid 62% match — tetraploid but whose strands are not all the same vs heteroplasmid →heterochromosome 62% match — A sex chromosome vs heteroplasmid →intraplasmid 61% match — Within a plasmid vs heteroplasmid →heterokaryon 61% match — A cell having two or more genetically different nuclei vs heteroplasmid →