phenotype

See also: phénotype

English

Etymology

From pheno- +‎ -type. (Date to be specified). From Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “to shine, to show, to appear”) and Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, type”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.nə(ʊ)ˌtaɪp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.nəˌtaɪp/, /ˈfiː.noʊˌtaɪp/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

phenotype (plural phenotypes)

1. (genetics, evolutionary theory) The appearance of an organism based on a multifactorial combination of genetic traits and environmental factors, especially used in pedigrees.

   Coordinate term: genotype

2. (genetics, evolutionary theory) Any observable characteristic of an organism, such as its morphological, developmental, biochemical or physiological properties, or its behavior.

   Coordinate term: genotype

Derived terms

• biphenotype
• ecophenotype
• electrophenotype
• endophenotype
• enterophenotype
• epiphenotype
• exophenotype
• extended phenotype
• glycophenotype
• histophenotype
• immunophenotype
• interphenotype
• macrophenotype
• metaphenotype
• microphenotype
• morphophenotype
• multiphenotype
• neurophenotype
• pathophenotype
• pharmacophenotype
• phenotypic
• phenotypical
• pseudophenotype
• radiophenotype
• subphenotype

Related terms

• phene
• phenocopy
• phenomenon

Translations

appearance of organism

• Afrikaans: fenotipe
• Arabic: نَمَط ظَاهِرِيّ m (namaṭ ẓāhiriyy)
• Armenian: ֆենոտիպ (hy) (fenotip)
• Bashkir: фенотип (fenotip)
• Catalan: fenotip (ca) m, fenotipus (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 表現型 / 表现型 (zh) (biǎoxiànxíng), 表型 (zh) (biǎoxíng)

• Czech: fenotyp m
• Dutch: fenotype (nl) n, verschijningsvorm (nl) m
• Finnish: fenotyyppi (fi), ilmiasu (fi)
• French: phénotype (fr) m
• Georgian: ფენოტიპი (penoṭiṗi)
• German: Phänotyp (de) m, Erscheinungsbild (de) n
• Greek: φαινότυπος (el) m (fainótypos)
• Hungarian: fenotípus (hu)
• Icelandic: svipgerð f, svipfar n
• Indonesian: fenotipe (id)
• Irish: feinitíopa m
• Italian: fenotipo (it) m
• Japanese: 表現型 (ひょうげんがた, hyōgengata)
• Kazakh: фенотип (fenotip)
• Korean: 표현형(表現型) (pyohyeonhyeong)
• Kyrgyz: фенотип (fenotip)
• Malay: fenotip
• Māori: tohuāhua
• Persian: فنوتیپ
• Polish: fenotyp (pl) m
• Portuguese: fenótipo (pt) m
• Romanian: fenotip (ro) n
• Russian: феноти́п (ru) (fenotíp)
• Serbo-Croatian: fenotip (sh) m
• Spanish: fenotipo (es) m
• Swedish: fenotyp (sv) c
• Tamil: தோற்றவமைப்பு (tōṟṟavamaippu)
• Thai: รูปแบบปรากฏ
• Turkish: fenotip (tr)
• Vietnamese: kiểu hình (vi) (矯形)

Verb

phenotype (third-person singular simple present phenotypes, present participle phenotyping, simple past and past participle phenotyped)

1. To evaluate or classify based on phenotype.

   Coordinate term: genotype

   • 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”, in British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology‎^[1], volume 50, number 1:

     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.

Derived terms

• misphenotype