Phenotype vs Polyphenic - What's the difference?
phenotype | polyphenic |
(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
* {{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
, 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. }}
(genetics) Having multiple phenotypes that can arise as a result of differing environmental conditions.
*{{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 6, J. Mark Rowland & Douglas J. Emlen, Two Thresholds, Three Male Forms Result in Facultative Male Trimorphism in Beetles, Science
, passage=Both types of threshold mechanism have been shown to couple horn growth with nutrition in scarab beetles and are considered facultative (polyphenic ) regulatory processes, and preliminary evidence suggested that they might sometimes both be present in the same species. }}
As a noun phenotype
is phenotype.As an adjective polyphenic is
(genetics) having multiple phenotypes that can arise as a result of differing environmental conditions.phenotype
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(wikipedia phenotype)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* phenotypic * phenotypical * phenotypicallyVerb
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