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What does complementation mean?

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Noun
  1. (mathematics) The replacement of a set by its complement
  2. (genetics) The interaction between two genetic units such that an organism can function normally if either one is defective
  3. (grammar) The relationship of a phrase to its predicate
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In addition, due to poor sanitation and poor access to water, complementation is often unsafe.
Initial backcrosses of the third mutant failed and were not reattempted due to findings during complementation testing.
Notice that this doesn't tell you that your complementation has to be classical, but it does tell you that a complement of a set should be a set.
Hence, the term complementation test is used to describe the process to test for gene function in recessive allelism.
The mutations were backcrossed and checked for allelism by genetic complementation tests.
This paper describes the outcome of a project to code the complementation patterns of all the verbs in Collins COBUILD English Dictionary.

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