Conditional Mutant At Biology Glossary

What is it? A mutant that can grow under one set (permissive) of environmental conditions but cannot grow under different (restrictive or nonpermissive) conditions. Some conditional mutants survive under the nonpermissive conditions but others (conditional lethal mutants) die under the nonpermissive conditions.

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