phenocopy

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A phenotypic variation (in an organism) that resembles a phenotype from a genetic cause but has an environmental rather than genetic cause (and thus is not inherited).
2. verb To copy a genetic variation through environmental manipulation.

Similar words

genocopy phenocopier endophenotype phenogenotype phenogenetics pheneotype ecophenotype pseudophenotype phenodeviant phenotype

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Word family

phenocopies