position effect
noun
: a genetic effect in which the expression of a gene is influenced by its interaction with usually adjacent genes and which is modified when the spatial relationships of the genes change (as by translocation)
Word History
First Known Use
1930, in the meaning defined above
- fell (in)
- fell (to)
- fell apart
- fell away
- fell back
- fell back on
- fell behind
- fell down
- fell flat
- fell for
- fell from grace
- fell in
- fell in with
- fell into
- fell into the habit
- fell off
- fell on one's face
- fell out
- Fell pony
- noninterests
- noninterference
- noninterferences
- noninterlaced
- nonintersecting
- nonintervention