POSITION EFFECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does position effect mean? 

• POSITION EFFECT (noun)
  The noun POSITION EFFECT has 1 sense:

1. (genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome

  Familiarity information: POSITION EFFECT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSITION EFFECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("position effect" is a kind of...):

consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)

Domain category:

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)