About The Medical Condition Genetic Suppression

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Genetic Suppression

Genetic Suppression Medical Condition Defined & Explained
Genetic Suppression Medical Condition

What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Genetic Suppression?

The restoration of the wild-type phenotype in an organism possessing a mutationally altered genotype. The effects of the mutation may be suppressed by a second "suppressor" mutation on a different gene, by a suppressor mutation on the same gene but located at a distance from the site of the primary mutation, or by the presence of a cytoplasmic suppressor due to a change in non-chromosomal DNA.

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