Visokokopijski

Visokokopijski is a term used in Slavic-language scholarly writing to describe elements or phenomena that exist in high copy numbers. The word is built from visoko, meaning high, and kopija, meaning copy, and it is employed across biological and technical contexts to convey abundance or replication level.

In biology, visoko­kopijski is most often encountered in reference to high-copy-number genetic elements. High-copy plasmids are plasmids that replicate to many copies within a host cell, enabling strong expression of inserted genes and rapid propagation in culture. This mode of replication is useful for initial cloning, screening, and protein production, but it can impose a metabolic burden on the host and lead to instability or loss of plasmids under certain conditions. The term is also used more broadly for repetitive DNA sequences or other elements that exist in multiple copies, as opposed to single-copy genetic loci.

Outside genetics, visoko­kopijski may appear in discussions of data management, digital archiving, or information theory in a metaphorical sense, describing data objects that have many duplicates, backups, or redundant copies. In such usage, the emphasis is on the implications of redundancy for storage efficiency, data integrity, and retrieval performance.

History and usage of the term vary by language community, but it remains a descriptive label rather than a formal classification. In scientific writing, it is commonly paired with qualifiers like “plasmidi” or “kopijski” to specify the exact object or context being discussed.

See also: high-copy plasmid, copy number, plasmid replication, gene amplification.