Polyphenic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Polyphenic is an adjective meaning (genetics) Having multiple phenotypes that can arise as a result of differing environmental conditions.
Meaning
(genetics) Having multiple phenotypes that can arise as a result of differing environmental conditions.
Example Sentences
Both types of threshold mechanism have been shown to couple horn growth with nutrition in scarab beetles and are considered facultative (polyphenic) regulatory processes, and preliminary evidence suggested that they might sometimes both be present in the same species.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include multiphenotypic, multiphenotype, multigenic, polygenetic, monophenotypic, polyallelic.
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