Look up: imprinting

1. imprinting
   [n] - a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established
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2. Imprinting
   Technique which applies variable copy to blank or pre-printed labels with a secondary device.
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3. imprinting
   is commonly observed in waterfowl...ducklings for example, will learn to follow a substitute parent such as a human being, thereafter ignoring its natural parents.. Category: Botany and zoology
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4. imprinting
   See genomic imprinting.
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5. imprinting
   1. <genetics> A remarkable genetic phenomenon. The gist is that gene expression depends on the sex of the transmitting parent. There is, for example, increased severity of neurofibromatosis when the gene for it came from the mother. ... 2. <psychology> A particular kind of learning chara...
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6. imprinting
   noun a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established
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7. imprinting
   (im-print´ing) a rapid kind of learning of certain species-specific behavior patterns that occurs with exposure to the proper stimulus at a critical stage of early life. genomic imprinting differential expression of a gene or genes as a function of inheritance from the male versus t...
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8. Imprinting
   • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imprint
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9. imprinting
   process of transferring writing from a master copy to another form. There are three basic methods of imprinting: (1) spirit hectograph master cards, ...
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10. imprinting
    in psychobiology, a form of learning in which a very young animal fixes its attention on the first object with which it has visual, auditory, or ... [8 related articles]
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11. imprinting
    In ethology, the process whereby a young animal learns to recognize both specific individuals (for example, its mother) and its own species. Imprinting is characteristically an automatic response to specific stimuli at a time when the animal is especially sensitive to those stimuli (the sensitive pe...
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12. Imprinting
    A phenomenon in which the disease phenotype depends on which parent passed on the disease gene. For instance, both Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes are inherited when the same part of chromosome 15 is missing. When the father's complement of 15 is missing, the child has Prader-Willi, but when the...
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13. imprinting
    imprinting, acquisition of behavior in many animal species, in which, at a critical period early in life, the animals form strong and lasting attachments. Imprinting is important for normal social development. The term was first used by the zoologist Konrad Lorenz to describe the way in which the so...
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14. imprinting
    Type: Term Pronunciation: im′print-ing Definitions: 1. A particular kind of learning characterized by its occurrence in the first few hours of life; determines species-recognition behavior.
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15. Imprinting
    (psychology) `Imprinting` is the term used in psychology and ethology to describe 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. It was first used to describe si...
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