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reverse genetics

n pl but sing in constr :  genetics that is concerned with genetic material whose nucleotide sequence is known and that analyzes its contribution to the phenotype of the organism by varying the nucleotide sequence and observing the results of such variation in the living organism, in living cells, or in vitro on macromolecules reverse-genetic adj 
 
 

 
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