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pleitropic

pleitropic adjective: describing a gene that has multiple, often unrelated effects.

Adjective

pleitropic (comparative more pleitropic, superlative most pleitropic)

  1. Describing a gene that has multiple, often unrelated effects

Forms of pleitropic

comparativemore pleitropic
superlativemost pleitropic

Questions about pleitropic

What does pleitropic mean?
Pleitropic means describing a gene that has multiple, often unrelated effects.
What part of speech is pleitropic?
Pleitropic is an adjective.

Words near pleitropic in the dictionary

  1. Pleistocenic
  2. pleistophyte
  3. pleistophytes
  4. Pleitez
  5. Pleitezes
  6. pleitropic
  7. pleitropically
  8. pleitropism
  9. Plekhanov
  10. plekstrin
  11. plekton

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