| constant |
a specific quantity that does not or cannot change or vary; the opposite of a variable.
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| constitutive |
Always expressed in an unregulated fashion (when referring to gene control).
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| constitutive heterochromatin |
Heterochromatin that surrounds the centromere. Specific regions of heterochromatin always present and in both homologs of a chromosome. See satellite DNA.
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| constitutive mutation |
A mutation which causes transcription to be no longer under regulatory control.
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| constant region |
A region of an antibody molecule that is nearly identical with the corresponding regions of antibodies of different specificities.
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