English Dictionary

polyphenic

形容詞

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(genetics) Having multiple phenotypes that can arise as a result of differing environmental conditions.

日本語の意味

（遺伝学）異なる環境条件により現れる複数の表現型を持つ

The polyphenic caterpillars develop different color patterns depending on the temperature during their larval stage.

その幼虫は幼虫期の気温によって異なる色彩パターンに成長することがあり、環境条件の違いによって複数の表現型を示す。

意味（1）

(genetics) Having multiple phenotypes that can arise as a result of differing environmental conditions.

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.