epistasis
noun
a form of interaction between nonallelic genes in which one combination of such genes has a dominant effect over other combinations.
epistatic
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a word derived from
epistasis.
Example Sentences
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Three offspring are yellow because Y is epistatic to w.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Three offspring are yellow, because w is not epistatic.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The alleles that are being masked or silenced are said to be hypostatic to the epistatic alleles that are doing the masking.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
To our knowledge, there is no way to explain why the hybrid genetic background is “sensitized” at a rate that increases quadratically with divergence time unless one invokes negative epistatic interactions in hybrids.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 15, 2011
The snowball effect holds even if some of the candidate regions cause HI through haploinsufficiency rather than by negative epistatic interactions.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 15, 2011
