phenotypical

Examples

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• Race is popularly conceived as a set of phenotypical distinctions in color, facial features, and so forth.

  Academic text (1997)

• In urban environments, and increasingly in rural areas, whites are perceived and perceive themselves by unpredictable combinations of cultural and phenotypical characteristics.

  Academic text (1997)

• For Saldanha, phenotypical differences continue to shape racial encounters in important ways.

  Academic text (2010)

• "Race" in Brazilian society is constructed along a continuum moving from "black" to "white," based on phenotypical features (skin color, type of hair, facial features) and on social factors like education and financial status.

  Academic text (1999)

• We acknowledge that racial categorizations based on phenotypical distinctions do not account for the ethnic and cultural variability that exists within and across racial groups.

  Academic text (2013)

• Nevertheless, phenotypical classifications of asthma have led to the development of systems designed to identify different processes in individual patients in a systematic fashion, in an attempt to target therapies that are most likely to be successful.

  Academic text (2012)

• Some of the present-day migrants, especially those from Central Africa and Asia, may be more conspicuous because of their skin color and other phenotypical characteristics, but it remains to be seen whether these are relevant in all situations and contexts and how these social constructions will evolve over time.

  Academic text (2002)

• Being black in a phenotypical sense, such as the descendants of former slaves in Suriname who migrated to the Netherlands from the early twentieth century onwards, has not produced a rigid race barrier.

  Academic text (2002)

• Nonetheless, individuals still engage in the manipulation of phenotypical traits in order to conform to the standards of beauty and demeanor that the national culture imposes upon them (Friedlander 1975).

  Academic text (1997)

• The scientist studied the phenotypical traits of the plants to understand how they adapted to their environment.

Synonyms

P

phenotypic

vsphenotypical

• Specialized

3 7.8

Describing the visible traits of a living thing caused by genes and environment

has the same meaning but is an alternative adjective form

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology