The phrase "a total copy of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that is an exact replica or duplicate of another item or document.
Example: "The document I received was a total copy of the original, with no changes made."
Alternatives: "an exact replica of" or "a complete duplicate of".
Measurement of the intensity of hybridization signal indicated consistently a total copy number of between 50 to 80, which falls short of the estimated several hundreds copies of rDNA in mouse [35].
ATon-II has a total copy number of 317, among which three elements have more than 10 identical copies (84, 15 and 12).
ATon-I has a total copy number of 294, among which three elements have more than 10 identical copies (146, 61 and 17).
This results in a total copy number of 122 full-length IS elements that are evenly spread across the A. asiaticus genome [ 34].
For example, when greater noise is present in a signal intensity deriving from a total copy number of 1, the observed measurement may get closer to a signal intensity expected from a total copy number of two rather than from one copy.
Here we call a total copy number the total number of allelic copies over a diplotype (a pair of haplotypes) at an ICN site.
This gave a total copy number in each sample of 10 000 per μL.
And at a specialty label like CRI, selling even 500 total copies of a CD over several years was thought a decent success.
Furthermore, searching the Oreochromis niloticus genome database led to the identification of a total of 59 copies of 5S rRNA and 38 copies of 18S rRNA genes that were distributed in several genomic scaffolds.
Both were therefore clearly members of multigene families, with a total of 232 copies of MaRGA08 and 183 copies of MaRGA37 observed in the positive clones identified across the 3 BAC libraries.
