Paramutagenic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to, or causing paramutation not-comparable

    "The results differ from classical examples of paramutation, which is a phenomenon of gene-silencing where a paramutagenic allele has the ability to silence the paramutable allele, and paramutable alleles gain the ability to be paramutagenic."

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"The results differ from classical examples of paramutation, which is a phenomenon of gene-silencing where a paramutagenic allele has the ability to silence the paramutable allele, and paramutable alleles gain the ability to be paramutagenic."

Etymology

From para- + mutagenic.

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