phenotype
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- noun
- /ˈfiːnəˌtaɪp/
- Specialized
- The scientist studied the phenotype of the plant to understand how its traits were influenced by the surrounding environment.
- asthma phenotype
- genotype and phenotype
- blood phenotypes
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Watch on YouTubeSome people use it for scientific discovery and say, oh, look, we see this phenotype at the cellular level.
- Some people use it for scientific discovery and say, oh, look, we see this phenotype at the cellular level.
- And that means that even identical twins are not identical in terms of their phenotype, right?
- And we don't, we do not understand the relationship between genotype and phenotype.
- So we can actually manipulate this this phenotype.
- Remember how I was sort of painting that map earlier from genetics all the way to phenotype that gene?
- He demonstrated in his research that there are two other types of sperm phenotypes within a man's ejaculate.
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I do believe both those phenotypes are important.
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Soon, much larger data sets with several hundreds of thousands of individual phenotype-genotype records will become available.
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Here, we are often limited to the observation of phenotype and cell growth.
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Some people use it for scientific discovery and say, oh, look, we see this phenotype at the cellular level.
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And that means that even identical twins are not identical in terms of their phenotype, right?
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Your blood has a very rare phenotype, one we haven't encountered before.
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Computer models can also be used to assess the performance of different phenotypes across a range of environments.
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All mice were healthy with no obvious behavioral phenotype, and none of the experimental mice were immune compromised.
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We show that maternal cells can take the form of a tissue-specific phenotype in progeny as cardiac myocytes.
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We discuss the genotype and phenotype of CES, with particular reference to inheritance patterns and craniofacial defects.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Phenotype comes from Greek parts pheno- meaning 'show' or 'appear' and -type meaning 'kind' or 'pattern', like the everyday word type. So a phenotype is the 'kind' that shows — the visible features of a person or plant made by their genes and by the environment.