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deletant

deletant noun: a mutant caused by the deletion of a gene.

Noun

deletant (plural deletants)

  1. A mutant caused by the deletion of a gene.
    • The resulting vector containing the SnTox1-Bar knockout construct was PCR-amplified with 5_Tox1Fbar and 3_Tox1Fbar for transformation in toxa3 -10 to result in SnToxA, SnTox1, and SnTox3 deletant mutants.2015 July 8, Kar-Chun Tan et al., “Functional redundancy of necrotrophic effectors – consequences for exploitation for breeding”, in Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 6, →DOI

Forms of deletant

pluraldeletants

Origin of deletant

From delete + -ant.

Questions about deletant

What does deletant mean?
Deletant means a mutant caused by the deletion of a gene.
What part of speech is deletant?
Deletant is a noun.
What is the plural of deletant?
The plural of deletant is deletants.

Words near deletant in the dictionary

  1. delessites
  2. delessitic
  3. deletability
  4. deletable
  5. deletables
  6. deletant
  7. deletants
  8. delete
  9. delete character
  10. delete characters
  11. deleteable

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