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repression (re-presh´әn) the act of restraining, inhibiting, or suppressing. a type of defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously banishes unacceptable ideas, feelings or impulses from consciousness. The person is typically unaware of “forgetting” unpleasant situations as a way of avoiding coping with them. If done to an extreme, repression may cause the person to have increased tension and do inexplicable, sometimes irresponsible things. gene repression. enzyme repression
interference, usually by the end product of a pathway, with synthesis of the enzymes of that pathway. gene repression
the inhibition of gene transcription of an operon; in prokaryotes repressor binding to the operon is involved.
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