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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024