1. deleterious - Adjective
2. deleterious - Adjective Satellite
Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example.
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A fitness of zero, less than one, one, more than one, respectively, indicates that mutations are lethal, deleterious, neutral, and advantageous. Source: Internet
Autosomal genetic disorders can arise due to a number of causes, some of the most common being nondisjunction in parental germ cells or Mendelian inheritance of deleterious alleles from parents. Source: Internet
Autosomal recessive diseases, however, require two copies of the deleterious allele for the disease to manifest. Source: Internet
Because it is possible to possess one copy of a deleterious allele without presenting a disease phenotype, two phenotypically normal parents can have a child with the disease if both parents are carriers (also known as heterozygotes ) for the condition. Source: Internet
But Mr. Trump’s policies and China’s growing global power have emboldened Beijing to be more direct in those messages and to highlight what Chinese officials say are the deleterious effects of American foreign policy. Source: Internet