English Explanatory Dictionary

synthetic lethality

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of genetic interaction in which two (or more) mutations which are not lethal when occurring singly in a cell are lethal when they occur together in the same cell.

Word forms

synthetic lethality synthetic lethalities
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