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English-Korean animal medical dictionary. 2013.
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imprinting — /im prin ting/, n. Animal Behav., Psychol. rapid learning that occurs during a brief receptive period, typically soon after birth or hatching, and establishes a long lasting behavioral response to a specific individual or object, as attachment to … Universalium
imprinting — A particular kind of learning characterized by its occurrence in the first few hours of life, and which determines species recognition behavior. genomic i. epigenetic process that leads to inactivation of paternal or maternal allele of certain… … Medical dictionary
imprinting — noun Date: 1937 a rapid learning process that takes place early in the life of a social animal (as a goose) and establishes a behavior pattern (as recognition of and attraction to its own kind or a substitute) … New Collegiate Dictionary
imprinting — n. 1) (in animal behaviour) a rapid and irreversible form of learning that takes place in some animals during the first hours of life. Animals attach themselves in this way to members of their own species, but if they are exposed to creatures of… … The new mediacal dictionary
Genomic imprinting — The phenomenon of parent of origin gene expression. The expression of a gene depends upon the parent who passed on the gene. For instance, two different disorders – Prader Willi syndrome and Angelman syndrome are due to deletion of the same part… … Medical dictionary
Hormonal imprinting — (HI) is a phenomenon which takes place at the first encounter between a hormone and its developing receptor in the critical periods of life (in unicellulars during the whole life) and determines the later signal transduction capacity of the cell … Wikipedia
animal learning — ▪ zoology Introduction the alternation of behaviour as a result of individual experience. When an organism can perceive and change its behaviour, it is said to learn. That animals can learn seems to go without saying. The cat that… … Universalium
animal behaviour — Introduction any activity of an intact organism. A living animal behaves constantly in order to survive, and all animals must solve the same basic problems. They must, for instance, periodically replace their energy source (consume… … Universalium
chemoreception — chemoreceptive /kee moh ri sep tiv, kem oh /, adj. /kee moh ri sep sheuhn, kem oh /, n. the physiological response to chemical stimuli. [1915 20; CHEMO + RECEPTION] * * * Sensory process by which organisms respond to external chemical stimuli, by … Universalium
Natal homing — is the process by which some adult animals return to their natal birthplace to reproduce. Contents 1 Sea Turtles 2 Salmon 3 Blue fin Tuna 4 Navigational Tools … Wikipedia
David Haig (biologist) — David Haig, is an Australian evolutionary biologist and geneticist, professor in Harvard Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He is interested in intragenomic conflict, genomic imprinting and parent offspring conflict, and wrote the … Wikipedia
