phenomicadj.
/fᵻˈnəʊmɪk/, /fᵻˈnɒmɪk/, U.S. /fəˈnoʊmɪk/, /fəˈnɑmɪk/, /fiˈnoʊmɪk/, /fiˈnɑmɪk/ Biology.
I. Compounds.
1. phenomic lag n. delayed appearance of phenotypic variants after induced mutation; delayed phenotypic expression of a mutation; also phenomic delay. Now rare or disused.
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1949 B. D. Davis in Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 35 8 It is suggested that the process under discussion be referred to more concretely as a phenomic lag.
1953 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 39 283 This ‘delayed effect’ or ‘phenomic delay’ was also observed by Davis.
1961 Nature 25 Feb. 679/1 (title) Phenomic delay in transduction of Salmonella typhimurium cell.
1973 Science 15 June 1197/2 The mutagenized exautogamous cells were cultured for a phenomic lag period of four to eight fissions.
II. General uses.
2. Of or relating to a phenome; occurring or performed at the level of the phenome.
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1960 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 42 35 When Rhodospirillum rubrum is cultured..in the dark.., the cells can be depleted of bacteriochlorophyll... The loss of pigment is phenomic; all of the bleached cells are capable of photosynthetic growth when returned to anaerobic conditions.
1990 Internat. Jrnl. Radiation Biol. 57 331 The mode of phenomic death is necrosis.
2001 Proteomics 1 169 Increasing emphasis needs to be placed on pure proteomic approaches at the structural, quantitative, cell biological and phenomic levels.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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