Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An environmentally induced, nonhereditary trait in an organism that closely resembles a genetically determined trait, especially a mutation.
- noun An individual exhibiting such a trait.
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- noun genetics A
variation in an organism that resembles agenetic one, but has anenvironmental rather than a genetic cause, and is notinherited - verb genetics To
copy a genetic variation through environmental manipulation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This is called a phenocopy, where an environmental factor induces an effect similar to a genetic mutation.
It's more than genes, it's networks and systems - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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This is called a phenocopy, where an environmental factor induces an effect similar to a genetic mutation.
Pharyngula 2010
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The beer analogy is wonderful for explaining phenocopy mutation.
Archive 2007-07-01 Field Notes 2007
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The beer analogy is wonderful for explaining phenocopy mutation.
Hardly a day goes by... Field Notes 2007
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The pathological similarity suggests that epigenetic processes may phenocopy the Familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) mutations within sporadic AD.
Elites TV PLoS ONE 2010
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The pathological similarity suggests that epigenetic processes may phenocopy the Familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) mutations within sporadic AD.
Elites TV 2010
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In addition to the pharmacological-phenocopy approach used here for study of the roles of CatSper in activation and hyperactivation of motility, we recently applied a chemical-genetic approach to extend our knowledge of the roles of PKA in the these processes.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anne E. Carlson et al. 2009
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In this and other respects, HC-056456 produces a pharmacological phenocopy of the CatSper-null sperm.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anne E. Carlson et al. 2009
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We also show that in wild type cells manipulations of sulfur metabolic flux phenocopy the enhanced growth rate of cells with more mtDNA.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Heidi M. Blank et al. 2009
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Thus prolonged incubation with HC-056456 produces a phenocopy of the lack-of-hyperactivation phenotype of the CatSper null sperm.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anne E. Carlson et al. 2009
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