Haplosufficiency

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being haplosufficient. uncountable

    "This group of intragenic revertant mutations was also tested for haplosufficiency by crossing homozygous gon-2(q388sup) hermaphrodites with gon-2(q388) males at restrictive temperature and scoring the offspring."

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"This group of intragenic revertant mutations was also tested for haplosufficiency by crossing homozygous gon-2(q388sup) hermaphrodites with gon-2(q388) males at restrictive temperature and scoring the offspring."

Etymology

From haplo- + sufficiency.

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