I am looking for a single word for "the number of times a value is copied".
Context:
My company makes software for plant breeders. Breeders do observations on plants and when they create a new generation of plants, e.g. by crossings, they copy observation values to this new generation. Of course, when this is done several times, the values become less reliable because of genetic changes. So we want to show a table with values and a column with this "number of times a value is copied" (to a new generation) as a short header.
Best Answer
Maybe propagation depth, in reference to how many generations a trait gets propagated.
Other terms that might sound less biology-related could be copy count, value copy count, iterations.