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Modifier

Modifier (Greek genos – the birth, a sort, an origin; synonym: the modifier) – a gene, nonallelic to a key gene and weakening or strengthening its influence.

 
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Even if heart of the person does not fight, then he all the same can live during a long period, as the Norwegian fisherman Jan Revsdal showed us. Its "motor" stopped for 4 hours after the fisherman got lost and fell asleep in snow.