Definition of "heterochronic" []

• Occurring at different times or intermittently (adjective)

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• "This is called heterochronic ‘differently timed’ growth."
• "The C. elegans heterochronic gene lin-4 encodes small RNAs with antisense comlementarity to lin-14."
• "Posttranscriptional regulation of the heterochronic gene lin-14 by lin-4 mediates temporal pattern formation in C. elegans."