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The constitution of an organism as determined by the interaction of its genetic constitution and the environment
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phenotype
Word definitions for phenotype in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A phenotype is the composite of an organism 's observable characteristics or traits , such as its morphology , development , biochemical or physiological properties, phenology , behavior , and products of behavior (such as a bird's nest). A phenotype results ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. what an organism looks like as a consequence of its genotype; two organisms with the same phenotype can have different genotypes
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"observable characteristics of an individual," 1911, from German phaenotypus (Wilhelm Johannsen, 1909); see pheno- + type (n.).\nRelated: Phenotypic .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context genetics English) The appearance of an organism based on a multifactorial combination of genetic traits and environmental factors, especially used in pedigrees. vb. To evaluate or classify based on #Noun
Usage examples of phenotype.
She had the inhumanly symmetrical features that only a first-line clade could afford to buy for the alpha instances of their phenotype.
The genes, then, are physically close to their extended phenotypic effects, as close as genes ordinarily are to their conventional phenotypes.
Darwinian evolution is a process of preservation of favoured genotypes as a consequence of differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
A BOY: He who always stood central, whose phenotypes are the bounceback man and the Grinder, whose posthumous papers we will examine in his lifetime, thinks he still stands central.
You've read the SGJ literature touting botaan adaptogen that can cure everything but a rainy day in most humanoid phenotypes.
You’ve read the SGJ literature touting bota—an adaptogen that can cure everything but a rainy day in most humanoid phenotypes.
Since all four phenotypes of the back-cross progeny contain at least one each of both recessive genes or one each of both dominant genes, the back-cross phenotype is a direct representation of the four possible gametes produced by the F1 hybrid.
Phenotype error: subject homoeobox specification contains abnormal neurological structure.
An organism's phenotype was thus believed to be almost entirely accounted for by the sum of these two apparently independent variables.
And nonrandom death is all it takes to select phenotypes, and hence the genes that they contain, in nature.
Then, recognizing their distinctive phenotypes and facial structure, understood the reason.
All of their offspring are exotic as well, but with a much smaller percentage of Firvulag phenotypes in the litter than Tanu women produce.
In this case, compound-pinnate leaf is dominant over webbed leaf, so whenever the genes w and W are combined, the dominant trait W will be expressed in the phenotype.
The fellow has even succeeded in scaring up some beeches and a cast-iron temple, in which the phenotype Johannes Gutenberg waits for his relief.
The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The Extended Phenotype, and others.