Medical Dictionary
dosage compensation
noun
Medical Definition of DOSAGE COMPENSATION
: the genetic mechanism by which the same effect on the phenotype is produced by a pair of identical sex-linked genes in the sex (as the human female) having the two sex chromosomes of the same type as by a single gene in the sex (as the human male) having the two sex chromosomes of different types or having only one sex chromosome (as in the males of some insects)
Seen & Heard
What made you want to look up dosage compensation? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).