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pleiotrophy

pleiotrophy is the alternative form of pleiotropy.

Meaning of pleiotropy

Noun

pleiotropy (countable and uncountable, plural pleiotropies)

  1. The influence of a single gene on multiple phenotypic traits; pleiotropism.
    • This experimental design is analogous to the experiment that we performed to test whether antagonistic pleiotropy operates as a genetic mechanism in the evolution of late-life mortality rate plateaus.2011, Laurence D. Mueller, Casandra L. Rauser, Michael R. Rose, Does Aging Stop?, Oxford University Press, page 65
    Antonyms:
    polygeny
  2. The existence of drug effects (especially beneficial effects) other than the one for which the drug was designed.

Questions about pleiotrophy

What is pleiotrophy the alternative form of?
Pleiotrophy is the alternative form of pleiotropy.

Words near pleiotrophy in the dictionary

  1. pleiotaxy
  2. pleiotrope
  3. pleiotropes
  4. pleiotrophic
  5. pleiotrophin
  6. pleiotrophy
  7. pleiotropic
  8. pleiotropical
  9. pleiotropically
  10. pleiotropies
  11. pleiotropism

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