Pleiotropy: 2019

Ursuary

By Bjørn Østman on 7/11/2019 08:06:00 AM

ur·su·ar·y

ˈər.suˌer.i

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noun: ursuary; plural noun: ursuaries

a large cage, building, or enclosure for keeping bears in.

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Pleiotropy comes from the Greek πλείων pleion, meaning "more", and τρέπειν trepein, meaning "to turn, to convert". It designates the occurrence of a single gene affecting multiple traits, and is a hugely important concept in evolutionary biology.

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