Phenotype vs Isotype - What's the difference?
phenotype | isotype |
(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.
To evaluate or classify based on
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, 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. }}
As nouns the difference between phenotype and isotype
is that phenotype is phenotype while isotype is (immunology) a marker corresponding to an antigen found in all members of a subclass of a specific class of immunoglobulins.phenotype
English
(wikipedia phenotype)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* phenotypic * phenotypical * phenotypicallyVerb
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