imprinting

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English

Definitions

verb

To leave a print, impression, image, etc.“For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.”
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.

noun

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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Synonyms

impression embossment form impress depression impregnation fingerprinting footprint printing print perception feeling implant bioimprinting imprintome critical period

Associated

imprinted epigenetic allele genomic dollhouse histone lorenz chromosome chromatin loci psychosis paternal

Rhymes

beginning underpinning grinning sprinting spinning glinting hinting squinting unstinting thinning

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