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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky