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PHENOTYPE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

What an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("phenotype" is a kind of...):

composition; constitution; make-up; makeup; physical composition (the way in which someone or something is composed)

Derivation:

phenotypic; phenotypical (of or relating to or constituting a phenotype)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb phenotype

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 Context examples: 

The participant is neither a true case or true control for the phenotype under consideration.

(Neither Case or Control Status, NCI Thesaurus)

The vast majority of cases are of B-cell phenotype and include mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas, follicular lymphomas, and diffuse large B-cell lymphomas.

(Pancreatic Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is an aromatic sulfonamide hydroxamate initially found in a screen for inhibitors of the tumorigenic phenotype of K-ras-transformed NIH3T3 cells.

(Oxamflatin, NCI Thesaurus)

The degree or probability to which a genotype is expressed as a phenotype.

(Penetrance, NCI Thesaurus)

Transcription factors that are encoded by oncogenes, a type of gene that contributes to the development of the malignant phenotype of a cell.

(Oncogene, Transcription Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare mixed phenotype acute leukemia in which the blasts also carry the translocation (9;22)(q34;q11.2) by karyotypic analysis or the BCR-ABL1 translocation by FISH or PCR.

(Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia with t(9;22)(q34;q11.2); BCR-ABL1, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare mixed phenotype acute leukemia in which the blasts also carry a translocation involving the MLL gene.

(Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia with t(v;11q23); MLL Rearranged, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare mixed phenotype acute leukemia in which the blasts express B-lymphoid and myeloid lineage markers but are negative for MLL translocation and (9;22)(q34;q11.2) translocation.

(Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia, B/Myeloid, Not Otherwise Specified, NCI Thesaurus)

The ability of an organism to adapt to a changing environment through the manipulation of its phenotype, without the alteration of its genotype.

(Phenotypic plasticity, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

An environmentally produced phenotype simulating the effect of a particular genotype.

(Phenocopy, NCI Thesaurus)