An example that follows a principle or rule, which can be in religion, math, music, science, etc., and refers to something reduced to its most basic form.
My professor explained that a gene can become an oncogene by a point mutation that causes the gene to always be turned on. He used Ras as a canonical example of this idea because one point mutation in the Ras gene can result in it being constitutively turned on and leading to cancer.
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