What is the difference between phenotype and trait?
phenotype | trait |
(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. }}
an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
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(computing, programming) In object-oriented programming, an uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.
As nouns the difference between phenotype and trait
is that phenotype is the appearance of an organism based on a multifactorial combination of genetic traits and environmental factors, especially used in pedigrees while trait is an identifying characteristic, habit or trend.As a verb phenotype
is to evaluate or classify based on phenotype.phenotype
English
(wikipedia phenotype)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* phenotypic * phenotypical * phenotypicallyVerb
(phenotyp)citation
trait
English
(wikipedia trait)Noun
(en noun)- The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?
