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counterselections

counterselections is the plural of counterselection.

Meaning of counterselection

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).

Questions about counterselections

What is counterselections the plural of?
Counterselections is the plural of counterselection.

Words near counterselections in the dictionary

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

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