Medical term:

pseudogenes



pseudogenes

The stable and inactive, long-term consequences of earlier mutations that occurred during the process of evolution and so damaged genes as to make them incapable of coding for proteins. Pseudogenes might be considered as analogues of fossils in geology.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005


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