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response-by-analogy principle

the generalization that an organism in an unfamiliar situation will react in a manner similar to its reaction in a similar but familiar situation.

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Edwards syndrome

Edwards syndrome

see trisomy 18. [John Hilton Edwards (1928–2007), British geneticist]