Mutually exclusive is a term in statistics that describes two or more events or factors that cannot occur within the same time and place.

The addition rule for probabilities is the probability for either of two mutually exclusive events or two non-mutually events happening.

To study the mutually exclusive expression of odorant receptor (OR) genes, we generated transgenic mice that carried the murine OR gene MOR28. Expression of the transgene and the endogenous MOR28 ...