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back mutation

by BioTech

Tue May 28 2002 at 15:52:25

A mutation that causes a mutant gene to revert to its original wild type base sequence.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

forward mutation	wild-type	Stupacil	wild type
base sequence	Muller's ratchet	mutant

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