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彷徨変異 (houkouheni) Japanese meaning: fluctuation | Kotomora
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変へん
異い
は
遺い
伝でん
し
ない
表ひょう
現げん
型がた
の
変へん
化か
を
指さ
す
。
Fluctuation refers to non-heritable phenotypic changes.
This difference in traits is due to environmental variation.
Kanji 変 unusual, change, strange 異 uncommon, different, queerness Related words 突とつ 然ぜん 変へん 異い 突然変異 is a genetic mutation, while 彷徨変異 is a non-heritable variation caused by the environment.
環かん 境きょう 変へん 異い 環境変異 is a broader term for environmentally induced variation; 彷徨変異 specifically refers to the fluctuation concept in biology.
Etymology 彷徨 (ほうこう, 'wandering') + 変異 (へんい, 'variation'). The term is a calque from German 'fluktuierende Variation' or English 'fluctuation', used in early 20th-century genetics.
