phenocopy

English

Etymology

From pheno- +‎ copy.

Noun

phenocopy (plural phenocopies)

  1. (genetics) 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

phenocopy (third-person singular simple present phenocopies, present participle phenocopying, simple past and past participle phenocopied)

  1. (genetics) To copy a genetic variation through environmental manipulation.
    • 1990, David de Pomerai, From Gene to Animal‎[1], →ISBN, page 275:
      The wg- mutant can be phenocopied by injecting antisense RNA (complementary to the 3 kb wg+ transcript) into wild-type embryos.
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