genetic suppression

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-002825",
  "term": "genetic suppression",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Mutation process that restores the wild-type phenotype in an organism possessing a mutationally altered genotype. The second \"suppressor\" mutation may be on a different gene, on the same gene but located at a distance from the site of the primary mutation, or in extrachromosomal genes (extrachromosomal inheritance).",
  "synonyms": [
    "suppressor mutation"
  ],
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "mutagenesis",
    "stop codon",
    "cytoplasmic inheritance",
    "gene expression",
    "suppressor genes",
    "genetic distance",
    "nonsense mutation"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings 2015",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "supresión genética"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/genetic-suppression/"
}