Definition of Deleteriousness. Meaning of Deleteriousness. Synonyms of Deleteriousness

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Definition of Deleteriousness

Deleteriousness
Deleterious Del`e*te"ri*ous, a. [LL. deleterius noxious, Gr. dhlhth`rios, fr. dhlei^sqai to hurt, damage; prob. akin to L. delere to destroy.] Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example. -- Del`e*te"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Del`e*te"ri*ous*ness, n.

Meaning of Deleteriousness from wikipedia

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- genetic disorders and other consequences that may arise from expression of deleterious recessive traits resulting from incestuous ****ual relationships and consanguinity...
- around highly deleterious and neutral mutations. Both theories agree that the vast majority of novel mutations are neutral or deleterious and that advantageous...
- Annotation Dependent Depletion (CADD) is a tool that evaluates the deleteriousness of single nucleotide, insertion and deletion variants in the human...
- conducted on sugar beet crops found that some root-colonizing bacteria were deleterious rhizobacteria (DRB). Sugar beet seeds inoculated with DRB had reduced...
- refer to wild type and mutant alleles where the mutation is implicitly deleterious and may talk in terms of genetic enhancement, synthetic lethality and...
- is an equilibrium in the number of deleterious alleles in a po****tion that occurs when the rate at which deleterious alleles are created by mutation equals...
- instead led them to adopt a strategy of short-term exploitation, which had deleterious effects on the Ottoman economy. Before the reforms of the 19th and 20th...
- reproduction. Purging of deleterious mutations in ****ual po****tions is facilitated by synergistic epistasis among deleterious mutations. High load can...
- important adaptive benefit of outcrossing is that it allows the masking of deleterious mutations in the genome of progeny. This beneficial effect is also known...