epigenotype
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From epi- + genotype; compare epigenetic.
Noun
[edit]epigenotype (plural epigenotypes)
- (genetics) The stable pattern of gene expression that is outside the actual base pair sequence of DNA.
Related terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]epigenotype (third-person singular simple present epigenotypes, present participle epigenotyping, simple past and past participle epigenotyped)
- To analyse or document such genotypes.
See also
[edit]- epigenetics
- epiphenotype
epigenetics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
[edit]- Richard G. Ham and Marilyn J. Veomett, Mechanisms of Development,[1] Mosby (1980), →ISBN, page 331: “The inherited potential to express a particular type of differentiation has been termed the epigenotype of the cell. The implication of the term ‘epigenotype’ is that the predisposition of each cell to differentiate in a particular direction is a heritable characteristic that has somehow been superimposed on the basic genetic program of that cell.”