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Ideotype vs Phenotype - What's the difference?

ideotype | phenotype |

As nouns the difference between ideotype and phenotype

is that ideotype is a specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type locality while phenotype is phenotype.

ideotype

Noun

(en noun)
  • A specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type locality.
  • A type of concept metarepresentation that is a compound memory trace consisting of the structural information detected by humans in categorical stimuli.
  • phenotype

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (genetics) The appearance of an organism based on a multifactorial combination of genetic traits and environmental factors, especially used in pedigrees.
  • (biology) Any observable characteristic of an organism, such as its morphological, developmental, biochemical or physiological properties, or its behavior.
  • Derived terms

    * phenotypic * phenotypical * phenotypically

    Verb

    (phenotyp)
  • To evaluate or classify based on
  • * {{quote-journal, 2000, T. Kubota et al., Frequencies of CYP2D6 mutant alleles in a normal Japanese population and metabolic activity of dextromethorphan O-demethylation in different CYP2D6 genotypes, British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology citation
  • , passage= One hundred and sixty-two unrelated healthy Japanese subjects were genotyped with the polymerase chain reaction amplification method and 35 subjects were phenotyped with dextromethorphan. }}