revertent

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having reverted to a previous (more basic or more natural) state.

   • As can be seen from the data for the control cultures, the variability in the numbers of revertent colonies observed in the absence of any specific mutant can be quite large.
   • The revertent virus may have escaped immune recognition in the animal in which it arose, but this virus was pathogenic in naive hosts.
2. 2

   A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the…

   A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system

3. 3

   Any remedy that restores something to its desired natural state.

   • Dear Rowland, it must be your business and mine to experimentalize on the utility and practicability of a revertent to this disgusting disorder which now vexes and threatens death to the state.
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   1. 4

      A mutation that reverts or undoes the effects of another mutation.

      • A revertent having restored levels of ornithine decarboxylase has been reported () and is probably a second site revertent which compensates for ts4.
      • In all cases where the original inactivating mutation disrupted a base pair in the putative secondary structure of the site, in the revertent, the opposing nucleotide in the base pair mutated to restore pairing.

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