The phrase "mimic the effect" is correct and commonly used in written English.
Example: In order to create a realistic thunderstorm scene, the special effects team had to mimic the effect of lightning and thunder using sound effects and lighting techniques.
It was, rather, the double-take-inducing peculiarity of his proportions, which mimic the effect of a distorting lens.
Whispery specks drift into the distance, growing smaller and smaller until they mimic the effect of dissolving light.
But filmmakers have other ways to mimic the effect of literary voice.
THE real showstopper, though, might be a pill that would mimic the effect, at the cellular level, of an ultralow-calorie diet.
It was possible that irregularities in Ganymede's permanent field could mimic the effect, but it was "unlikely nature has conspired" that effect, Dr. Kivelson said.
The chemicals are designed to mimic the effect of a very low-calorie diet, which is known to lengthen the life span of rodents.
The second point about sensitization is that it may mimic the effect of associative learning or conditioning.
E-cigarettes mimic the effect of real ones, producing a vapour that contains nicotine, the addictive substance in cigarettes.
Also on the site is the Northern Lights Tower, an 88-foot (27-metre) set of steel pillars lit to mimic the effect of the aurora borealis.
Some of the drugs, known as GLP-1 agonists, mimic the effect of the hormone, while others slow the breakdown of the body's own hormone.
The closest you can come as an adult to achieving the flexible open-mindedness of a child, says Gopnik, is to fall in love, or go to a new place, while coffee can mimic the effect of those neurotransmitters.
