Imprinting

Imprinting may refer to:

  • Genomic imprinting (genetic imprinting), a mechanism of regulating gene expression
  • Imprinting (psychology), in psychology and ethology
  • Molecular imprinting, in polymer chemistry
  • Metabolic imprinting, the phenomenon by which the metabolism of the developing fetus may be "programmed" during gestation

Famous quotes containing the word imprinting:

    Once I pass’d through a populous city imprinting my brain for
    future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,
    Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I casually met
    there who detain’d me for love of me,
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)