dauermodification
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From German Dauer + English modification.
Noun[edit]
dauermodification (countable and uncountable, plural dauermodifications)
- The persistence of an abnormal characteristic – generally an environmentally induced trait – over several generations of the organism. Such characteristics are inherited through the cytoplasm and tend to disappear after a few generations.
- 1979 April 12, J. C. Sanford, R. E. Hanneman, “Reciprocal differences in the photoperiod reaction of hybrid populations in Solanum tuberosum”, in American Journal of Potato Research[1]:
- Cytoplasmic inheritance or dauermodification are considered the most likely explanations for this difference in photoperiod reaction.
References[edit]
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “dauermodification”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.