Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Phenotype |
PhenotypeNoun1. The constitution of an organism as determined by the interaction of its genetic constitution and the environment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "phenotype" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Avian | The way in which the genetic message of an individual is expressed in its morphology, physiology, and behavior (Brown and Gibson 1983:567). (references) |
Health | The outward appearance of the individual. It is the product of interactions between genes and between the genotype and the environment. This includes the killer phenotype, characteristic of yeasts. (references) |
Medicine | An organism as observed, i. e. as judged by its visually perceptible characters resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The phenotype of an individual organism is either its total physical appearance and constitution, or a specific manifestation of a trait, such as size or eye color, that varies between individuals. Phenotype is determined in large part by genotype, or by the identity of the alleles that an individual carries at one or more positions on the chromosomes. Many phenotypes are determined by multiple genes and influenced by environmental factors. Thus, the identity of one or a few known alleles does not always enable prediction of the phenotype.
Nevertheless, because phenotypes are much easier to observe than genotypes (it doesn't take chemistry or sequencing to determine a person's eye color), classical genetics uses phenotypes to deduce the functions of genes. These inferences can then be checked by breeding experiments. In this way, early geneticists were able to trace inheritance patterns without any knowledge whatsoever of molecular biology.
The idea of the phenotype as the product of the genotype has been generalised by Richard Dawkins in his book The Extended Phenotype.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Phenotype."
Crosswords: Phenotype |
| English words defined with "phenotype": dominant, dominant gene ♦ phenotypic, phenotypical ♦ recessive, recessive gene ♦ saltation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "phenotype": Biological Markers ♦ Cline ♦ Gene Deletion, Genes, Dominant, Genes, Recessive, Genes, Suppressor, Genes, Suppressor, Tumor, Genetic Complementation Test ♦ Lewis Blood-Group System ♦ minus tree ♦ phenotypic elite tree, plus tree ♦ select tree, superior tree, Suppression, Genetic ♦ Transforming Growth Factors ♦ viral gene expression ♦ XXY syndrome. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Influences on offspring phenotype in an intact nuclear family compared to influences on offspring phenotype in an adoptive family.Credit: NIAA. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This includes the killer phenotype, characteristic of yeasts. (references) | |
The relationship between the clinical phenotype and the genotype, however, is not always constant. (references) | ||
These mutations also contribute to the biochemical heterogeneity and may be chiefly responsible for the biochemical phenotype. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Phenotype" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Phenotype" is used about 141 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 141 | 26,682 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "phenotype": phenotype-genotype. | |
Ending with "phenotype": genotype-phenotype. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
phenotype | 53 |
genotype phenotype | 13 |
bombay phenotype | 5 |
phenotype zoids | 3 |
human phenotype | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "phenotype"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 表現型 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | faenotype. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | fenotype. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ilmiasu, fenotyyppi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | phénotype. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Phänotypus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φαινότυπος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fenotipo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 표현형. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enotypephay fenótipo. (various references) фенотип. (various references) fenotipo. (various references) fenotyp. (various references) kalıtımla oluşan dış görünüş, fenotip. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "phenotype": phenotypes. (additional references) | |
| |
"Phenotype" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fenotype, phenootype, phyenotype. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "phenotype" (pronounced fē"nutī'p) |
| 5 | -n u t ī' p | genotype, Monotype. |
| 4 | -u t ī' p | archetype, ferrotype, prototype, stereotype. |
| 3 | -t ī' p | subtype, tintype. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-n-o-p-p-t-y" | |
-1 letter: neophyte. | |
-2 letters: neotype, peptone, potheen. | |
-3 letters: ethyne, peyote, phoney, phyton, poteen, python, typhon. | |
-4 letters: honey, hoppy, netop, peony, phone, phony, teeny, tepoy, toney, topee, tophe, yente. | |
-5 letters: eyen, eyne, hent, hone, hope, hype, hypo, hyte, neep, nope, note, open, peen, peep, pent, peon, pepo, phon, phot, poet, pone, pony, pope, teen, thee, then, they, tone. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-n-o-p-p-t-y" | |
+1 letter: phenotypes. | |
+3 letters: phanerophyte. | |
+4 letters: phanerophytes. | |
+5 letters: cyproheptadine, encephalopathy, hypnotherapies, pyelonephritic, pyelonephritis. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 68 65 6E 6F 74 79 70 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .... . -. --- - -.--. .--. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
| Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "phenotype" |
