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phenocopy

The English word “phenocopy” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. 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).

verb

  1. To copy a genetic variation through environmental manipulation.

Etymology

From pheno- + copy.

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