Meaning of dauermodification | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Cytoplasmic inheritance or dauermodification are considered the most likely explanations for this difference in photoperiod reaction.”

“... dauermodification, but after a second autogamy, and also after a succeeding conjugation, the dauermodification appeared again. A more convincing demonstration of the calcium dauermodification was later made by Orlova (1941)[…]”

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