Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun suppresser_gene

1 sense of suppresser gene

Sense 1
suppressor, suppresser, suppressor gene, suppresser gene -- (a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene))
       => gene, cistron, factor -- ((genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors")