- "phenotype" has
sometimes been
incorrectly used as a
shorthand for the
phenotypic difference between a
mutant and its wild type,
which would lead to the...
- A
phenotypic trait,
simply trait, or
character state is a
distinct variant of a
phenotypic characteristic of an organism; it may be
either inherited or...
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Phenotypic switching is
switching between multiple cellular morphologies.
David R. Soll
described two such systems: the
first high
frequency switching...
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Phenotypic screening is a type of
screening used in
biological research and drug
discovery to
identify substances such as
small molecules, peptides, or...
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Phenotypic plasticity refers to some of the
changes in an organism's behavior,
morphology and
physiology in
response to a
unique environment. Fundamental...
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Phenotypic integration is a
metric for
measuring the
correlation of
multiple functionally-related
traits to each other.
Complex phenotypes often require...
- In microbiology, the
phenotypic testing of
mycobacteria uses a
number of methods. The most-commonly used
phenotypic tests to
identify and
distinguish Mycobacterium...
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Phenotypic disparity, also
known as
morphological diversity,
morphological variety,
morphological disparity,
morphodisparity or
simply disparity, refers...
- in
genetics where a
single gene or
genetic variant influences multiple phenotypic traits. A gene that has such
multiple effects is
referred to as a pleiotropic...
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Phenotypic heterogeneity describes different mutations in the same gene that can
sometimes give rise to
strikingly different phenotypes. E.g., certain...
