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integrative suppression

Within a bacterium, the suppression of a chromosomal mutation which prevents the chromosome from being replicated, by a plasmid which has become integrated into the chromosome. Because the plasmid's presence in the chromosome suppresses the mutation, the chromosome is able to freely replicate again.


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