Crossword clues for phenotype
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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
WordNet
n. what an organism looks like as a consequence of its genotype; two organisms with the same phenotype can have different genotypes
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 from the expression of an organism's genes as well as the influence of environmental factors and the interactions between the two. When two or more clearly different phenotypes exist in the same population of a species, the species is called polymorph.
The genotype of an organism is the inherited instructions it carries within its genome.
This genotype-phenotype distinction was proposed by Wilhelm Johannsen in 1911 to make clear the difference between an organism's heredity and what that heredity produces. The distinction is similar to that proposed by August Weismann, who distinguished between germ plasm (heredity) and somatic cells (the body). The genotype-phenotype distinction should not be confused with Francis Crick's central dogma of molecular biology, which is a statement about the directionality of molecular sequential information flowing from DNA to protein, and not the reverse.
Richard Dawkins in 1978 and then again in his 1982 book The Extended Phenotype suggested that bird nests and other built structures such as caddis fly larvae cases and beaver dams can be considered as "extended phenotypes".
In igneous petrology, a phenotype is an aphanitic igneous rock which is identified and classified according to the mineralogy of its phenocrysts, when it is impossible to determine the mineralogy of the groundmass. Because phenocrysts represent the earlier part of crystallisation, and a melt may have evolved somewhat in between stages of cooling, they cannot be used to accurately describe the rock's true mineralogy or chemistry, but do provide an approximate estimation. As a result of this potential for error, phenotypes are identified using the prefix pheno-.
Phenotype can refer to:
- Phenotype (genetics)
- Phenotype (igneous petrology), an aphanitic igneous rock which is identified and classified according to the mineralogy of its phenocrysts
- Phenotype (medicine)
In a nosological sense, the term phenotype can be used in clinical medicine for speaking about the presentation of a disease. The complementary concept in this regard is endotype, which refers to the pathogenesis of the disease ignoring its presentation.
In this context, a phenotype would be any observable characteristic or trait of a disease, such as morphology, development, biochemical or physiological properties, or behavior, without any implication of a mechanism. A clinical phenotype would be the presentation of a disease in a given individual.
Some organizations have their own specialised meaning. For example, the COPD means "a single or combination of disease attributes that describe differences between individuals with COPD as they relate to clinically meaningful outcomes", but nearly all specialities use this meaning in some way, like in asthma research.
Phenotype is the fifth studio album by Dutch heavy metal band Textures, released on February 5, 2016. It was recorded at the same time as another album, Genotype, which is set to be released in 2017. Both albums are based around the same concept, and thus could be considered parts of a double album. This is the first album to feature new lead guitarist Joe Tal, who replaced founding member Jochem Jacobs (who continues in his role as producer).
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.