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Genocopy vs Phenocopy - What's the difference?

genocopy | phenocopy |

As nouns the difference between genocopy and phenocopy

is that genocopy is a trait that is a phenotypic copy of a genetic trait but is caused by a different genotype while phenocopy is a variation in an organism that resembles a genetic one, but has an environmental rather than a genetic cause, and is not inherited.

As a verb phenocopy is

to copy a genetic variation through environmental manipulation.

genocopy

English

(wikipedia genocopy)

Noun

(genocopies)
  • A trait that is a phenotypic copy of a genetic trait but is caused by a different genotype.

    • phenocopy

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia phenocopy) (phenocopies)
  • (genetics) A variation in an organism that resembles a genetic one, but has an environmental rather than a genetic cause, and is not inherited

    • Verb

  • (genetics) To copy a genetic variation through environmental manipulation
  • *{{quote-book, 1990, David de Pomerai, From Gene to Animal citation
    • , passage=The wg-'' mutant can be phenocopied by injecting antisense RNA (complementary to the 3 kb ''wg+ transcript) into wild-type embryos.}}