Phenotype vs Epigenesis - What's the difference?
phenotype | epigenesis |
(genetics) The appearance of an organism based on a multifactorial combination of genetic traits and environmental factors, especially used in pedigrees.
(biology) Any observable characteristic of an organism, such as its morphological, developmental, biochemical or physiological properties, or its behavior.
To evaluate or classify based on
* {{quote-journal, 2000, T. Kubota et al., Frequencies of CYP2D6 mutant alleles in a normal Japanese population and metabolic activity of dextromethorphan O-demethylation in different CYP2D6 genotypes, British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
, passage= One hundred and sixty-two unrelated healthy Japanese subjects were genotyped with the polymerase chain reaction amplification method and 35 subjects were phenotyped with dextromethorphan. }}
(biology) The theory that an organism develops by differentiation from an unstructured egg rather than by simple enlarging of something preformed.
*2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 100:
*:Ignored for two millennia, Aristotle, in his book On the Generation of Animals , first proposed the theory of epigenesis in biology, suggesting that development of a plant or animal from an egg or spore follows a sequence of steps in which the organism changes and the various organs form.
(geology) changes in the mineral content of rock after its formation
As nouns the difference between phenotype and epigenesis
is that phenotype is phenotype while epigenesis is epigenesis.phenotype
English
(wikipedia phenotype)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* phenotypic * phenotypical * phenotypicallyVerb
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