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synthetic lethality

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English

Syllables
syn-thet-ic lethal-i-ty
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

synthetic lethalities (plural)

Questions

What does synthetic lethality mean?
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.

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