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pleiotropy
(redirected from Antagonistic Pleiotropy)

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pleiotropy /plei·ot·ro·py/ (-pe) the production by a single gene of multiple phenotypic effects.pleiotrop´ic
pleiotropism, pleiotropy
the production by a single gene of multiple phenotypic effects.


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Another example of antagonistic pleiotropy was discovered by the biologist Leonard Hayflick in 1961.
 
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