genotype

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  1. noun The genetic makeup, as distinguished from the physical appearance, of an organism or a group of organisms.
  2. noun The combination of alleles located on homologous chromosomes that determines a specific characteristic or trait.

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  • It seemed likely that if the human genotype was here, ancestral plants and animals had to be as well. —  AnalogSFF,October2005
  • Black boxes indicate homozygosity for the race 2 (R2) genotype, white boxes indicate homozygosity for race 7 (R7) genotype, and grey boxes indicate heterozygosity (H). —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • No significant changes in ascorbyl radical or ascorbate levels were found in the midgut contents of L. dispar larvae that ingested the leaves of the AO-overexpressing genotypes compared to the control genotype, and no significant decreases in ascorbate levels were found in the foregut or midgut contents of M. sanguinipes. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Its biological implication is that if you have an organism with a certain genotype, then because its self-organizing processes - which are subject to perturbation from the environment, etc. - you can get different outcomes with the same genotype. —  ScreenTalk
  • Successful and efficient use of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) depends on the choice of the problem representation - that is, the genotype and the mapping from genotype to phenotype - and on the choice of search operators that are applied to this representation. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. Greek genos, race; see genə- in Indo-European roots + Latin typus, type; see type.

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  1. Irreg. from Greek γένος, kind, genus, + τύπος, type.
 

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/ˈdʒɛnətaɪp/
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