How to Use phenotype in a Sentence

phenotype

noun
  • The breeder grew 50 seeds from the cross-strain, and phenotype number 15 smelled like the after milk from Cap’n Crunch Berries.
    Hallie Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The Xavánte are outliers in both genotype and phenotype.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2011
  • Are all genotypes with one phenotype in one corner of that space?
    Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The one clue revealed by the suspect’s genome was the unusual phenotype of brown eyes combined with bright red hair.
    New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The reality is that the function of BMPs cannot be defined by their effects on the phenotype (that is, on traits).
    Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Since then the case has remained cold — but on Saturday came the new piece of evidence: a phenotype of the person police believed killed O’Keefe.
    Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 9 July 2018
  • Odds are good, though, that many of these conservatives do not know what a phenotype is and never think about Aryan victory.
    Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Skin, hair, and eye color are based on phenotype predictions.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2022
  • That DNA evidence was used to create the phenotype image.
    Jesse Paul, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2017
  • The shaded yellow phenotype produced by mutations on the ASIP gene are seen in a collie’s coat color.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
  • One thing her team proposes is an approach based on patterns, in the groups of people who are affected, to describe a phenotype of a cancer-at-risk person.
    Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
  • This racial distinction is important, because the Burmese have a prejudice against dark skinned South Asians, and the Rohingya are easy to mark out as different because of their phenotype.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2013
  • Second, in 2006, researchers demonstrated that gut microbes could cause changes in a host’s phenotype, such as obesity.
    Jason Pontin, WIRED, 15 June 2018
  • The phenome comprises all the possible observable traits of DNA, known as phenotypes.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 6 Mar. 2020
  • But experts who subscribe to Dawkins’s extended phenotype idea, like Vollrath at Oxford, believe that webs are more like tools the spider uses.
    Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 30 May 2017
  • In the absence of a diagnostic phenotype, major phenotypes also can be used to diagnose rosacea, if two or more are present.
    Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
  • With those 25 models, the devs have tried to represent every human phenotype.
    Brittany Vincent, BGR, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Meanwhile, scientists are working rapidly to learn more about plants’ genes, or their genotype, and match these genetic traits with the plants’ physical traits, or their phenotype.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2021
  • In January 2019, the profile was sent to a lab for DNA phenotype testing and a genetic genealogy screening.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 May 2022
  • Science is another culprit; the same glitches in our DNA can produce disparate phenotypes.
    Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Genes, as well as the environment, influence a phenotype.
    Ben Guarino, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The elephant population in the region declined more than 90% due to the war, and the mass hunting of the mammals for their tusks resulted in a phenotype of the species that had a better chance of survival -- specifically, female elephants.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Natural selection favors the variants on peaks: The average genotype or phenotype of a species should evolve by moving from one peak to the next, ideally along a ridge between them rather than through the valleys.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
  • So at the end of the day, this genetic engineering enables the creation of mice that have four sexes: XX mice with ovaries, that is the typical female biologic genotype and phenotype.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2022
  • The team is also using the phenotype and genotype data to determine how to grow plants without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2022
  • There’s nothing wrong with being any of those things, but neither is there anything inherently right about lucking into the phenotype long advanced as the ideal of female beauty.
    Vogue, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Think of your phenotype as your body’s hardware, or physiology: your height and skin color and metabolism.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Since 2014, the company has offered a service called Snapshot that produces phenotype mug shots of unknown suspects, predicting hair and eye and skin color as well as facial structure.
    New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The former are cases where a single new mutant confers a beneficial phenotype.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2013
  • This is a key point: your individual regimen should be tailored to your symptoms, frequency, phenotype and more.
    Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021

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