Associations to the word «Phenocopy»

Wiktionary

PHENOCOPY, noun. (genetics) A variation in an organism that resembles a genetic one, but has an environmental rather than a genetic cause, and is not inherited
PHENOCOPY, verb. (genetics) To copy a genetic variation through environmental manipulation

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke