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pleiotropic

Variant of pleiotropy

noun

Genetics the condition in which a single gene exerts simultaneous effects on more than one character in the offspring

also pleiotropism

Origin: pleio- + -tropy

Related Forms:

pleiotropic adjective
pleiotropically adverb

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