- "phenotype" has
sometimes been
incorrectly used as a
shorthand for the
phenotypic difference between a
mutant and its wild type,
which would lead to the...
- A
phenotypic trait,
simply trait, or
character state is a
distinct variant of a
phenotypic characteristic of an organism; it may be
either inherited or...
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Phenotypic plasticity refers to some of the
changes in an organism's behavior,
morphology and
physiology in
response to a
unique environment. Fundamental...
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Phenotypic switching is
switching between multiple cellular morphologies.
David R. Soll
described two such systems: the
first high
frequency switching...
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Phenotypic screening is a type of
screening used in
biological research and drug
discovery to
identify substances such as
small molecules, peptides, or...
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Morphological freedom refers to an
alleged or
proposed civil right of a
human person either to
maintain or
modify their own body, on
their own terms, through...
- pharmacology, also
known as
forward pharmacology, or
phenotypic drug
discovery (PDD),
relies on
phenotypic screening (screening in
intact cells or
whole organisms)...
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Phenotypic heterogeneity describes different mutations in the same gene that can
sometimes give rise to
strikingly different phenotypes. E.g., certain...
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reaction norm, also
called a norm of reaction,
describes the
pattern of
phenotypic expression of a
single genotype across a
range of environments. One use...
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influences two or more
seemingly unrelated phenotypic traits. Such a gene that
exhibits multiple phenotypic expression is
called a
pleiotropic gene. Mutation...
