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Of, or relating to a phenotype.

*2011 , "Baby you can drive my genes", The Economist , 30 Jul 2011:

*:Most advertisements feature people with perfectly symmetrical faces, as this is a sign of phenotypic quality – or good genes.

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(genetics, mineralogy) Of or relating to epigenesis.

(genetics) Of or relating to epigenetics.

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, year = 1977 , month = December , title = A Systems-Analytical Approach to Macro-Evolutionary Phenomena , author = Rupert Riedl , journal = The Quarterly Review of Biology , volume = 52 , issue = 4 , jstor = 2823251 , page = 352 , passage = The old and optimistic “one gene — one character” concept has long been invalidated by phenomena such as pleiotropy and polygeny, and for a generation now we have thought of genomic activity as a system of complex epigenetic' interactions — an ' epigenetic landscape. }}

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, date = 2010-11-06 , title = Sins of the Fathers , magazine = , passage = Every cell in the body contains the same DNA but epigenetic' settings on cells in the bone and blood, for example, mean the tissues do very different jobs. The ' epigenetic consequences of a huge range of environmental factors are under investigation, from exposure to drugs, chemicals and hormones, to the impact of poor maternal care in infancy, and the likelihood that they are as hereditable as DNA. }}