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PHENOTYPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
What an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("phenotype" is a kind of...):
composition; constitution; make-up; makeup; physical composition (the way in which someone or something is composed)
Derivation:
phenotypic; phenotypical (of or relating to or constituting a phenotype)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb phenotype
Context examples:
The participant is neither a true case or true control for the phenotype under consideration.
(Neither Case or Control Status, NCI Thesaurus)
The vast majority of cases are of B-cell phenotype and include mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas, follicular lymphomas, and diffuse large B-cell lymphomas.
(Pancreatic Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It is an aromatic sulfonamide hydroxamate initially found in a screen for inhibitors of the tumorigenic phenotype of K-ras-transformed NIH3T3 cells.
(Oxamflatin, NCI Thesaurus)
The degree or probability to which a genotype is expressed as a phenotype.
(Penetrance, NCI Thesaurus)
Transcription factors that are encoded by oncogenes, a type of gene that contributes to the development of the malignant phenotype of a cell.
(Oncogene, Transcription Factor, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare mixed phenotype acute leukemia in which the blasts also carry the translocation (9;22)(q34;q11.2) by karyotypic analysis or the BCR-ABL1 translocation by FISH or PCR.
(Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia with t(9;22)(q34;q11.2); BCR-ABL1, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare mixed phenotype acute leukemia in which the blasts also carry a translocation involving the MLL gene.
(Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia with t(v;11q23); MLL Rearranged, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare mixed phenotype acute leukemia in which the blasts express B-lymphoid and myeloid lineage markers but are negative for MLL translocation and (9;22)(q34;q11.2) translocation.
(Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia, B/Myeloid, Not Otherwise Specified, NCI Thesaurus)
The ability of an organism to adapt to a changing environment through the manipulation of its phenotype, without the alteration of its genotype.
(Phenotypic plasticity, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
An environmentally produced phenotype simulating the effect of a particular genotype.
(Phenocopy, NCI Thesaurus)
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