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maternal effect

maternal effect noun: a situation where the phenotype of an organism is determined not only by the environment it experiences and its genotype, but also by the environment and genotype of its mother.

Noun

maternal effect (plural maternal effects)

  1. (evolutionary theory) A situation where the phenotype of an organism is determined not only by the environment it experiences and its genotype, but also by the environment and genotype of its mother.

maternal effect meaning in Tamil

maternal effect in Tamil

தாய் விளைவு

Forms of maternal effect

pluralmaternal effects

Questions about maternal effect

What does maternal effect mean?
Maternal effect means a situation where the phenotype of an organism is determined not only by the environment it experiences and its genotype, but also by the environment and genotype of its mother.
What is maternal effect in Tamil?
Maternal effect in Tamil is தாய் விளைவு. See Maternal effect meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is maternal effect?
Maternal effect is a noun.
What is the plural of maternal effect?
The plural of maternal effect is maternal effects.

Words near maternal effect in the dictionary

  1. maternal cousin
  2. maternal cousins
  3. maternal custody
  4. maternal death
  5. maternal deaths
  6. maternal effect
  7. maternal effects
  8. maternal grandchild
  9. maternal grandchildren
  10. maternal grandfather
  11. maternal grandfathers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maternal effect (page history and authors); maternal effect (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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