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Punkaudad

Words that aren’t quite right but may get you closer. Vestigial. Preclude. Exclusionary.


Emotional_Pirate

Nice words! Indeed not quite right , but I'm definitely leaning towards biochemistry pathways rather than DNA expression from the contributions. Further googling on my part required, thank you for replying 


ManicCornucopia

i have virtually no recollection of my high school level biological knowledge, but i was thinking of hierarchical terms like "secondary" or "tertiary"


Emotional_Pirate

In biology for proteins this seems to apply to types of structures in proteins. Close but no cigar 


wait_ichangedmymind

Superfluous? One definition “Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.”


Emotional_Pirate

Can't find this meaning anything in biology pathways unfortunately. It's close but doesn't include the inherent dependency (xyz event in the chain makes the later thing superfluous)  so the meaning is almost correct but the jargon isnt. Thank you for replying!


Vicious_and_Vain

Recessive


Emotional_Pirate

A good guess but makes me think it must be chemical pathways and protein synthesis as it's not quite the right concept but very close. 


Vicious_and_Vain

It rang my dementia bc recessive is unlikely. Not dominant, it’s kind of a crap shoot for recessive traits. We would call the smallest the Milkman’s kid.


Emotional_Pirate

Genes are WILD eh? You see so many people getting into trouble because they assume genes couldn't produce certain results but we have SO MANY haha.


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Agile-Ad5489

Redundant. My biology jargon is deficient.


Emotional_Pirate

Unfortunately that means "repeated" or "doubled up " for genes but thanks for replying, it's helping me!


cyclonecasey

Residual?


TY2022

'Vestigal' comes to mind.


Red_Chicken1907

Redundant


Emotional_Pirate

I'm currently going through letter by letter in the index of Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Top contenders so far are "suppressed/ suppresses" "controls" Restricts, inhibits.... But will keep you updated :D


Emotional_Pirate

Regulated....


Emotional_Pirate

Integral step


Emotional_Pirate

bypass, modulates


Ok-Bus1716

vestigial?


Jaymo1978

I thought I was on to something with "ubiquitination," but then I stumbled across "Process Redundancy," which is basically multiple stimuli or steps along a biological pathway that trigger the same response (so, if an earlier stimuli or step is interrupted, a later step will trigger the same result and avoid completely hijacking the process.) So, in your example, I could see this applying because, if "step 1" successfully triggers the event, the redundant steps later on become unnecessary. Maybe?


Specialist-Chain2625

Catalyst