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How to use phenotype in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun, verb

Phenotype means the appearance of an organism based on a multifactorial combination of genetic traits and environmental factors, especially used in pedigrees. Example: “The phenome comprises all the possible observable traits of DNA, known as phenotypes.”

Examples of phenotype by meaning

nounAny observable characteristic of an organism, such as its morphological, developmental, biochemical or physiological...

  • The phenome comprises all the possible observable traits of DNA, known as phenotypes.2020 March 6, Kristen Rogers, “Prefer tea over coffee? It could be your genes, study finds”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Oct...
  • Meiklejohn believes the authors could use other methodologies like the FORensic Capture Enrichment panel, designed to isolate human DNA for identifying extended kinship, ancestry and phenotype analysis.2026 January 16, Ashley Strickland, “Genetic clues may be hiding in Leonardo da Vinci’s artwork”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06...

verbTo evaluate or classify based on phenotype.

  • One hundred and sixty-two unrelated healthy Japanese subjects were genotyped with the polymerase chain reaction amplification method and 35 subjects were phenotyped with dextromethorphan.2000, T. Kubota et al., “Frequencies of CYP2D6 mutant alleles in a normal Japanese population and metabolic activity of dextromethorphan...

More sentences with phenotype

  • The death grip, summit disease, these are extended characteristics of the fungus, part of its extended phenotype.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, “Mycelial Minds”, in Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, London…. From the entry summit disease
  • The phenotype is useful in treatment planning while the endotype provides insight in pathophysiological mechanisms of CRS.2015 August 15, Thanit Chalermwatanachai, Nan Zhang, Gabriele Holtappels, Claus Bachert, “Association of Mucosal Organisms with Patterns…. From the entry endotype
  • To highlight the phenotype, lacking macrochaetae are encircled on the left heminotum.2015 October 9, “Generation of New Hairless Alleles by Genomic Engineering at the Hairless Locus in Drosophila melanogaster”, in PLOS ONE…. From the entry heminotum
  • This putative SC phenotype may facilitate the identification and isolation of limbal epithelial SCs.2004 May, Zhuo Chen, Cintia S. de Paiva, Lihui Luo, Francis L. Kretzer, Stephen C. Pflugfelder, “Characterization of Putative Stem Cell…. From the entry sc
  • Thus, this “triple negative” phenotype may be used to identify and determine the frequency of BBT.2004 July 15, L. A. Carey, C. M. Perou, L. G. Dressler, et al., “Race and the poor prognosis basal breast tumor (BBT) phenotype in the…. From the entry triple-negative
  • QTL mapping conducts a pangenomic assessment of gene location and action for potentially any phenotype (i.e., trait).1995, Michael Lee, “DNA Markers and Plant Breeding Programs”, in Advances in Agronomy, volume 55, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, →DOI…. From the entry pangenomic
  • Cardiac fibromas may present with various clinical phenotypes and rhythmology.2024 August 8, Karl Finke, Thorsten Gietzen, Daniel Steven, Stephan Baldus, Henrik ten Freyhaus, David Maintz, Lenhard Pennig, Carsten…. From the entry rhythmology
  • Indeed, the screening of drugs with extensive polypharmacologies within phenotypic assays is an intriguing exercise in associating mechanism to phenotype.2015 July 16, “Novel Phenotypic Outcomes Identified for a Public Collection of Approved Drugs from a Publicly Accessible Panel of Assays”…. From the entry polypharmacologies
  • In comparison to the highly flagellated WT, we observed a primarily deflagellated phenotype (Fig 5A left and middle panels).2015 August 13, “Characterization of Novel Factors Involved in Swimming and Swarming Motility in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium”…. From the entry deflagellated
  • Bombay blood is incompatible with all ABO donors and only blood from another individual possessing the Bombay phenotype can be transfused.2007, Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology. From the entry Bombay blood
  • An earlier aspect of the phenotype, hyperbranching of intersegmental vessels, however, was rescued by Pten that retained lipid phosphatase activity, independent of protein phosphatase activity.2016 February 6, “Differential Requirement for Pten Lipid and Protein Phosphatase Activity during Zebrafish Embryonic Development”, in…. From the entry hyperbranching
  • Thirdly, we have shown that the network topology also fulfils the constraints resulting from the equivalence assumption of the basal and hyperrepressed phenotypes.2015 July 23, Kaveh Pouran Yousef et al., “Logical-continuous modelling of post-translationally regulated bistability of curli fiber…. From the entry hyperrepressed
  • Importantly, overexpression of WASP in trc mutants and transheterozygotes of trc and Tsc2 (which also show synaptic overgrowth) suppressed their synaptic overgrowth phenotypes.2015 September 23, “Tricornered Kinase Regulates Synapse Development by Regulating the Levels of Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein”, in…. From the entry transheterozygotes
  • We report a 13-year-old patient with the typical cerebrorenal phenotype of Lowe syndrome, that had remained undiagnosed due to absence of any ocular involvement.2013, Cataracts: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2013, page 6. From the entry cerebrorenal
  • Human dendritic cells acquire a semimature phenotype and lymph node homing potential through interaction with CD4 + CD25 + regulatory T cells .2009 August 27, Vishukumar Aimanianda et al., “Surface hydrophobin prevents immune recognition of airborne fungal spores”, in Nature…. From the entry semimature
  • The concurrent loss of the characteristic of maturability and the phenotype of myeloid commitment suggests that the control of the two phenomena may be related.L. Fitz-Gibbon, G.B. Price, A.K. Sullivan in the British Journal of Haematology, 1983. From the entry maturability
  • Women diagnosed with PCOS using the NIH criteria of hyperandrogenemia and oligo- or anovulation are at high risk for metabolic dysfunction while women with the normoandrogenic phenotype are not.2016 January 6, “The Gut Microbiome Is Altered in a Letrozole-Induced Mouse Model of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry normoandrogenic
  • In contrast, a SIRT1 inhibitor, selisistat, has been reported to alleviate HD-related phenotypes in multiple HD models and has been found to be safe in clinical trials.2016 January 28, “SIRT1 Activity Is Linked to Its Brain Region-Specific Phosphorylation and Is Impaired in Huntington’s Disease Mice”, in…. From the entry selisistat
  • Other unique phenotypic features in our case were strabismus, severe oral apraxia, and joint hyperlaxity, which are all supposedly part of the phenotype of this de novo KCND3 mutation.2015 July 21, Katrien Smets et al., “First de novo KCND3 mutation causes severe Kv4.3 channel dysfunction leading to early onset…. From the entry hyperlaxity
  • In the study by Venugopal et al., in describing the phenotype of ΔdlaTΔpdhC, the deletion strain was not recovered post-day one despite equal input into the aerosolizer.2015 September 24, “glpx Gene in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Is Required for In Vitro Gluconeogenic Growth and In Vivo Survival”, in PLOS…. From the entry aerosolizer
  • To compare the model predictions to the phenotype of bone disorders known to result in abnormal mineralization, we examined hypomineralization in osteomalacia and hypermineralization in osteogenesis imperfecta.2015 August 21, Svetlana V. Komarova et al., “Mathematical model for bone mineralization”, in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology…. From the entry hypomineralization
  • The demonstration that the short sleeper phenotype can be reverted in these lines by transposon jumping indicates that a single gene is likely to be involved.2004, Pierre-Hervé Luppi, Sleep: Circuits and Functions, →ISBN, page 158. From the entry short sleeper
  • Dawkins ("Replicators and vehicles") only circumlocutes—that he (Dawkins) has wisely changed his language to clarify the fact that the direct action of selection is on phenotypes, not genes.1983, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, “Review: Current Problems in Sociobiology: An Adaptationist Review”, in Evolution, volume 37, pages 1325–1326. From the entry locute

Meaning of phenotype

  1. noun The appearance of an organism based on a multifactorial combination of genetic traits and environmental factors, especially used in pedigrees.
  2. noun Any observable characteristic of an organism, such as its morphological, developmental, biochemical or physiological properties, or its behavior.
  3. verb To evaluate or classify based on phenotype.

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Questions about phenotype in a sentence

How do you use phenotype in a sentence?
Phenotype is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The phenome comprises all the possible observable traits of DNA, known as phenotypes.”
What is a short sentence with phenotype?
“Cardiac fibromas may present with various clinical phenotypes and rhythmology.”
What does phenotype mean?
Phenotype means the appearance of an organism based on a multifactorial combination of genetic traits and environmental factors, especially used in pedigrees.

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