Sythetic Lethal Mutations At Biology Glossary

What is it? Two mutations are synthetically lethal if cells with either of the single mutations are viable but cells with both mutations are inviable. As with suppressor analysis, synthetic lethal mutations often indicate that the two mutations affect a single functi

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