complementation tests meaning

• [Medicine]
  A test used to determine whether or not complementation (compensation in the form of dominance) will occur in a cell with a given mutant phenotype when another mutant genome,encoding the same mutant phenotype,is introduced into that cell.

• By using the complementation test an unknown mutant can be rapidly assigned to a particular gene.
• His Nobel Prize winning studies with " complementation test.
• In panel ( e ) the complementation test for repressor is shown.
• Knowing this, the geneticist may perform a complementation test on two separately obtained strains of pure-breeding white-eyed flies.
• The cistron was defined by an operational test applicable to most organisms that is sometimes referred to as a cis-trans test, but more often as a complementation test.
• Jacob and Monod first imagined that there must be a " site " in DNA with the properties of the operator, and then designed their complementation tests to show this.
• For a simple example of a complementation test, suppose a geneticist is interested in studying two strains of white-eyed flies of the species Drosophila melanogaster, more commonly known as the common fruit fly.
• "Cisgender " has its origin in the Latin-derived prefix " complementation test in genetics, in Ciscaucasia ( from the Russian perspective ) and in the ancient Roman term Cisalpine Gaul ( i . e ., " Gaul on this side of the Alps " ).
• His Ph . D . advisor at MIT was David Botstein, and the title of his thesis was " Genetic analysis of the yeast microtubule cytoskeleton . " Stearns'thesis work was notable for identifying exceptions to the genetic complementation test that were useful for defining genetic interactions, and for the first use of the term " synthetic lethality " in the modern sense of two non-lethal mutations resulting in lethality in the double mutant.

• "complementation tests" meaning in Chinese: 《英文msh词典》Complementation Tests