In a manner relating to or involving episomes; describing how something operates as an episomal element.
From episomal + -ly (adverbial suffix). Created in modern molecular biology literature to describe the behavior or properties of episomal genetic elements.
When scientists say a gene is 'episomally transmitted,' they're describing one of evolution's great tricks—how useful traits like antibiotic resistance can spread through a bacterial population in weeks rather than generations!
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