Medical Definition of Permissive temperature
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Of a temperature sensitive mutation, a temperature at which the mutated gene product behaves normally and so the cell or organism survives as if wild type. C.f. The restrictive temperature, at which the gene product takes on a mutant phenotype.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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