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

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