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(law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation) atavism: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic turning in the opposite direction regression: returning to a former state backsliding: a failure to maintain a higher state
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Restitution of a mutant gene to the wild-type condition, or at least to a form that gives the wild phenotype; more generally, the appearance of a trait expressed by a remote ancestor.
Ãâó: www.fao.org/docrep/003/X3910E/X3910E21.htm
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A mutational change from a mutant allele back to a wild-type allele.
Ãâó: www.modernhumanorigins.com/r.html
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1. An interest or estate in which an individual has a fixed interest in the future such as the remaining part left after obligations are paid which would revert for distribution. 2. The right of a lessor, upon termination of a lease, to possess leased property.
Ãâó: www.peakagents.ca/glossary/r8.htm
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The return of property which was the subject of a lease to the freeholder at the expiration of the lease.
Ãâó: www.indiainfoline.com/bisc/jama/jmmr.html
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