Definition of genotype in English:
genotype
noun ˈdʒiːnətʌɪpˈdʒɛnətʌɪp
Biology The genetic constitution of an individual organism.
Often contrasted with phenotype
Example sentencesExamples
- What evidence to you have that the genotype of such organisms has not evolved?
- Phenotypic plasticity enables individuals or genotypes to assume obviously different phenotypes during the life cycle.
- These strains offer the genetic reproducibility that is so valuable in lab mice, but with a wider variety of genotypes and phenotypes.
- To determine the haplotypes of an individual, the genotypes of both parents may be required.
- If a hypolipidaemic drug were found to be effective in only one genetic subgroup the genotypes would be of more interest.
verb ˈdʒiːnətʌɪpˈdʒɛnətʌɪp
[with object]Biology Investigate the genetic constitution of (an individual organism)
the person appointed will be responsible for maintaining and genotyping many different lines of zebra fish
Example sentencesExamples
- Eighteen microsatellites were genotyped in order to investigate which population of the adjacent countries was the possible source.
- All other plants from crosses involving a resistant mutant line were genotyped.
- The lines are for when the cost of genotyping a single marker is expressed in the units of the cost of rearing.
- This analysis was preceded by genotyping the main ancestors of the southern soybean gene pool for the flanking markers.
- Many rams have already been genotyped for their ability to pass on resistance to scrapie.
Origin
Early 20th century: from German Genotypus, from Greek genos 'race, offspring' + -tupos 'type'.