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phenocopyPhänokopie (ger.)

  • An individual showing features which are characteristic of a genotype other than its own (esp. of a particular abnormal mutant), but have been produced environmentally rather than genetically. (OED 2012)
    modification
    1935

    Es ist im Interesse der Darstellung vielleicht wünschenswert, einen kurzen Terminus fiir die die Mutanten kopierenden nicht erblichen Phänotypen zu haben. Wir wollen sie fortan Phänokopien nennen.

    Goldschmidt, R. (1935). Gen und Außeneigenschaft (Untersuchungen an Drosophila). Z. indukt. Abst. Vererbungsl. 69, 38-69: 46.

    1938
    The production of phenocopies in Drosophila succeeded only if the temperature shock was applied at a definite time in development, the sensitive period.
    Goldschmidt, R. (1938). Physiological Genetics: 14 (acc. to OED 2012).