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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Genetics
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phenotype | American Dictionary

phenotype
noun[ C ]
us/ˈfi·nəˌtɑɪp/
biology
all the characteristics of a living thing, especially the qualities that you can see, for example the color of the hair and eyes, the weight, etc.

Examples of phenotype

phenotype
The genetic analysis of these age-dependent phenotypes, termed growth trajectories, has long been of interest to students in different disciplines of biology and genetics.
In this model, latent genetic and environmental variables are defined that account for all the variance in the first phenotype.
Another set of latent genetic and environmental variables are defined to be specific for the second phenotype.
Contrasting leaf phenotypes control seasonal variation in water loss in a tropical forest shrub.
Following this phase, perpetuation occurs - a phase in which the differentiated phenotype of the cell is amplified by mediators via autocrine signals.
Present and future possibilities for defining a phenotype for specific language impairment.
This enables us to characterize the functional receptors and the physiological phenotype of microglia in situ.
The phenotype was described with a clinical interview and questionnaires administered to both sisters.
Rapid switching to multiple antigenic and adhesive phenotypes in malaria.
Small alterations in the genotype sometimes produce large changes in the phenotype; other large alterations in the genotype may produce no change at all.
It was dominated by phenotype screening in the case of familial hypercholesterolemia.
In the case of familial hypercholesterolemia, under current conditions, genetic screening is dominated by phenotype screening.
Common genomic rearrangements arise through unequal meiotic recombination and result in complex but distinct behavioural and cognitive phenotypes.
It might be expected that environmental factors in the vicinity of the ensheathing cells would have crucial effects on their phenotypes.
Immunocytochemistry and electrophysiology were used to identify protein-expression profiles and to examine functional properties of neuronal and astrocytic phenotypes.
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