English Explanatory Dictionary

knockout mouse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several forms of mice that have been genetically engineered by inactivating specific genes.

Word forms

knockout mouse knockout mice

Etymology

From the notion that specific genes have been knocked out of the genome.

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