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counterselection

counterselection noun: selection that removes unwanted characteristics.

Noun

counterselection (countable and uncountable, plural counterselections)

  1. Selection that removes unwanted characteristics.
    • In all recipients, distant drug resistance markers streptomycin (SmR; rpsL104), chloramphenicol (CmR; recA::cat(FRT)), and/or nalidixic acid (NlR; gyrA96) were used for counterselection.2015 July 11, “Novel recA -Independent Horizontal Gene Transfer in Escherichia coli K-12”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
  2. (evolutionary theory) Dysgenic selection (that has the opposite effects of natural selection).

Forms of counterselection

pluralcounterselections

Origin of counterselection

From counter- + selection.

Questions about counterselection

What does counterselection mean?
Counterselection means selection that removes unwanted characteristics.
What part of speech is counterselection?
Counterselection is a noun.
What is the plural of counterselection?
The plural of counterselection is counterselections.

Words near counterselection in the dictionary

  1. countersecurity
  2. counterselect
  3. counterselectable
  4. counterselected
  5. counterselecting
  6. counterselection
  7. counterselections
  8. counterselective
  9. counterselects
  10. countersemitism
  11. countersense

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