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🛑 Able to be stopped 🧬 Can be neutralized
suppressible

suppressible

8.2
A harmful genetic change you can cancel with another mutation
  • adjective
  • /səˈprɛsəbl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : suprimible
  • The genetic disorder was found to be suppressible by introducing a compensatory mutation.

Examples

  • Some mutations are suppressible, allowing normal function to be restored in the organism.

  • Researchers are studying which types of errors in DNA are suppressible by other genetic changes.

  • This mutation is suppressible.

  • The mutation is suppressible by another genetic change.

  • The genetic disorder was found to be suppressible by introducing a compensatory mutation.

  • Some mutations are suppressible, allowing normal function to be restored in the organism.

  • Researchers are studying which types of errors in DNA are suppressible by other genetic changes.

Synonyms

repressible
vssuppressible
  • Specialized
8.8

Able to be turned off by another molecule or process, for example a protein that stops a gene

is neutralized or compensated by a second mutation rather than by regulatory switching

Surface Forms

suppressible positive

Morphology

suppressible = suppress (transparent) = suppress + ible

Formed from 'suppress' + '-ible'; although used in a specialized genetic sense, the morphological derivation 'able to be suppressed' is straightforward.

Etymology

Suppressible comes from suppress ('to press down') plus -ible ('able'). In genetics, think of a second change that 'presses down' the first problem, so a mutation is suppressible when another change can cancel or fix its effect.