forward mutation

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(thing) by BioTech (7.3 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue May 28 2002 at 15:50:49
Any mutation which renders a formerly functional gene nonfunctional. This is the opposite of a back mutation.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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