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Genetic Phenomena > Genetic Variation > Mutation > Suppression, Genetic
Genetic Phenomena > Mutagenesis > Suppression, Genetic

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Suppression, Genetic  

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Entry terms

  • Genetic Suppression
  • Genetic Suppressions
  • Suppressions, Genetic

Scope note

  • Mutation process that restores the wild-type PHENOTYPE in an organism possessing a mutationally altered GENOTYPE. The second "suppressor" mutation may be on a different gene, on the same gene but located at a distance from the site of the primary mutation, or in extrachromosomal genes (EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE).

History note

  • 80; was GENES, SUPPRESSOR 1968-79 (Prov 1968-69)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013489

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