Suppression, Genetic |
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| Genetic Suppression; Genetic Suppressions; Mutation, Suppressor; Mutations, Suppressor; Suppressions, Genetic; Suppressor Mutations | |
| 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). | |