Undermodify

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To modify insufficiently.

    "In this light, it is possibly instructive that monkey cells as described in section III, when starved for methionine, undermodify the Y-base in phenylalanine tRNA so that it resembles the situation in tumor cells."

Example

More examples

"In this light, it is possibly instructive that monkey cells as described in section III, when starved for methionine, undermodify the Y-base in phenylalanine tRNA so that it resembles the situation in tumor cells."

Etymology

From under- + modify.

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