monogenicallyadv.
/mɒnə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌmɑnəˈdʒɛnək(ə)li/ Biology and Medicine.
By means of a single gene. Cf. monogenic adj.2
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polygenically1942
monogenically1963
orthologously1970
paralogously1970
1963 Man 63 138/1 To confine criteria of affinity to a relatively few monogenically determined traits would seem to be an unnecessarily restrictive technique.
1970 Plant Dis. Reporter 56 696 A true resistance mechanism which is monogenically controlled.
1995 Cereal Res. Communic. 23 49 The waxy bloom of winter wheat varieties..is monogenically dominant to the bloomlessness of spring wheat varieties.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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