英语词源
- pleiotropy (n.)
- 1921, from German pleiotrop (1910), from Greek pleion "greater in quantity, the more part, very many," (see pleio-) + trope "turn, turning" (see trope). Related: Pleiotropic; pleiotropism.
权威例句
- 1. The creation of multiple effects by a single gene is called pleiotropy.
- 单一基因所产生的多重效应为基因多效性.