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phenocopy

noun

Etymology

From pheno- + copy.

  1. derived from cōpia
  2. derived from copia
  3. derived from copie
  4. inherited from copy
  5. prefixed as phenocopy — “pheno + copy”

Definitions

  1. A phenotypic variation (in an organism) that resembles a phenotype from a genetic cause…

    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. To copy a genetic variation through environmental manipulation.

    • The wg- mutant can be phenocopied by injecting antisense RNA (complementary to the 3 kb wg+ transcript) into wild-type embryos.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for phenocopy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA