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Phenotype vs Isophenogamy - What's the difference?

phenotype | isophenogamy |

As nouns the difference between phenotype and isophenogamy

is that phenotype is phenotype while isophenogamy is (sociology) mating between people who have the same phenotype (who bear a somatic resemblance to each other).

phenotype

English

(wikipedia 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. }}

    Related terms

    * genotype

    isophenogamy

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (sociology) mating between people who have the same phenotype (who bear a somatic resemblance to each other)