morphopoieticadj.
/ˌmɔːfə(ʊ)pɔɪˈɛtɪk/, U.S. /ˌmɔrfoʊˌpɔɪˈɛdɪk/ Biology.
Of or relating to morphopoiesis; esp. assisting or promoting morphopoiesis; determining the shape of an organic structure.
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morphopoietic1963
1963 E. Kellenberger in M. Sela New Perspectives in Biol. VI. 234 It may be foreseen..that different mechanisms work in nature for the expression of this shape-determining—or morphopoietic—information.
1969 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 173 32 A distinct disadvantage of the FA [= flagellar apparatus] for morphopoietic studies is its relative complexity.
1976 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 276 151 The demonstration of the reassembly of TMV..established that a virus could self-assemble, without requiring any essential catalytic or morphopoetic function of a cellular component.
1980 Nature 3 Jan. 34/1 Molecules of pC thus assembled into the core could further interact through their unique NH2-terminal domains with other morphopoietic proteins such as pE, during the polymerisation of the capsid.
1998 Adv. in Virus Res. 51 135 Morphopoietic genes clustered at one end of the genome, with head genes preceding tail genes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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