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单词 genotype
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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.

Derivatives

  • genotypic

  • adjective dʒiːnəˈtɪpɪkdʒɛnəˈtɪpɪk
    Biology
    • Population sample pairwise comparisons were performed to test for genic and genotypic differentiation across loci.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Elite athletes fine-tune these variables so minute genotypic differences can be decisive.
      • Specific genotypic mutations in the protease gene can result in high levels of phenotype resistance to individual protease inhibitors and cross resistance.
      • We also investigate the allelic and genotypic diversities maintained under different rates of clonal reproduction.
      • We focus primarily on calculation of the likelihood, which is equal to the probability of the genotypic data under the assumed model.

Origin

Early 20th century: from German Genotypus, from Greek genos 'race, offspring' + -tupos 'type'.

Rhymes

stenotype
 
 

Definition of genotype in US English:

genotype

noun
  • The genetic constitution of an individual organism.

    Often contrasted with phenotype
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If a hypolipidaemic drug were found to be effective in only one genetic subgroup the genotypes would be of more interest.
    • Phenotypic plasticity enables individuals or genotypes to assume obviously different phenotypes during the life cycle.
    • What evidence to you have that the genotype of such organisms has not evolved?
    • 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.
verb
[with object]
  • 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.
    • This analysis was preceded by genotyping the main ancestors of the southern soybean gene pool for the flanking markers.
    • The lines are for when the cost of genotyping a single marker is expressed in the units of the cost of rearing.
    • All other plants from crosses involving a resistant mutant line were genotyped.
    • 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’.

 
 
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