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a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established
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Imprinting, or silencing, is the suppression of certain genes on chromosomes, depending on from which parent they were received.When DNA is passed to daughter cells after fertilization of an egg by a sperm, certain alleles can become active only if they were received from the mother, others only if they came from the father. ...
Ãâó: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(genetics)
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A form of early learning that occurs in some animals during a critical period.
Ãâó: highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072563141/student_...
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A genetic mechanism by which genes are selectively expressed from the maternal or paternal homologue of a chromosome.
Ãâó: www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v2/n10/glossary/nrg1001...
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The process by which young individuals of a species acquire irreversible behavior patterns of that species. With respect to hearing, imprinting involves the ability of the brain to distinguish and process the sounds and rhythms of the first language or languages the young hear.
Ãâó: science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih3/hearing...
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