English Explanatory Dictionary

maternal effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

maternal effect maternal effects
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