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EPISTASIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
Synonyms:
epistasis; hypostasis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("epistasis" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)