Promutagen

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any material that promotes the production of a mutagen.

    "Yogurt has shown antimutagenic effects against a range of mutagens and promutagens, in microbial and mammalian cell systems."

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"Yogurt has shown antimutagenic effects against a range of mutagens and promutagens, in microbial and mammalian cell systems."

Etymology

From pro- + mutagen.

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