imprinting
verb
Meaning
- To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
- To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
- To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.
- Any kind of phase-sensitive learning (learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.
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