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.