Undermodify
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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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