How to Use phenotype in a Sentence

phenotype

noun
  • Are all genotypes with one phenotype in one corner of that space?
    — Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Skin, hair, and eye color are based on phenotype predictions.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The one clue revealed by the suspect’s genome was the unusual phenotype of brown eyes combined with bright red hair.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Odds are good, though, that many of these conservatives do not know what a phenotype is and never think about Aryan victory.
    — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2022
  • With those 25 models, the devs have tried to represent every human phenotype.
    — Brittany Vincent, BGR, 4 Nov. 2021
  • In the absence of a diagnostic phenotype, major phenotypes also can be used to diagnose rosacea, if two or more are present.
    — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The former are cases where a single new mutant confers a beneficial phenotype.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2013
  • One thing her team proposes is an approach based on patterns, in the groups of people who are affected, to describe a phenotype of a cancer-at-risk person.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
  • People started to create collections of genotypes and studied their phenotypes.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The reality is that the function of BMPs cannot be defined by their effects on the phenotype (that is, on traits).
    — Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
  • But not all of those differences are relevant to the phenotype—or appearance—of the bluebuck that the Colossal team wants to recreate.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
  • These small proteins, once dismissed as genetic noise, are now recognized as determinants of phenotype.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • There's a lot of evolutionary psychological models for why this phenotype is adaptive, but that's not relevant to us here.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2011
  • Meanwhile, scientists are working rapidly to learn more about plants’ genes, or their genotype, and match these genetic traits with the plants’ physical traits, or their phenotype.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2021
  • In some cases these risk alleles are very penetrant, in that a particular state predicts with high likelihood a disease phenotype.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2013
  • Second, in 2006, researchers demonstrated that gut microbes could cause changes in a host’s phenotype, such as obesity.
    — Jason Pontin, WIRED, 15 June 2018
  • The breeder grew 50 seeds from the cross-strain, and phenotype number 15 smelled like the after milk from Cap’n Crunch Berries.
    — Hallie Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2022
  • As users create new genome variants and study the results in cells, each variant's traits and characteristics (called its phenotype) can be noted and added to the platform's libraries.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Oct. 2021
  • There’s nothing wrong with being any of those things, but neither is there anything inherently right about lucking into the phenotype long advanced as the ideal of female beauty.
    — Vogue, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Science is another culprit; the same glitches in our DNA can produce disparate phenotypes.
    — Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The team is also using the phenotype and genotype data to determine how to grow plants without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The shaded yellow phenotype produced by mutations on the ASIP gene are seen in a collie’s coat color.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The researchers are just beginning to study how a plant’s phenotype—its physical characteristics—might change if a human body is composing nearby.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 3 Sep. 2020
  • But how did the molecules generate the exercise-positive phenotype?
    — Ivan Amato, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The phenome comprises all the possible observable traits of DNA, known as phenotypes.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Coupled with these are racist attacks on people from north-east India because of their similarity with Chinese phenotype.
    — Ashwini Deshpande, Quartz India, 27 Mar. 2020
  • In other words, getting their genotype, their genome, and correlating that with their phenotype, with their physical characteristics.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Aug. 2022
  • But experts who subscribe to Dawkins’s extended phenotype idea, like Vollrath at Oxford, believe that webs are more like tools the spider uses.
    — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 30 May 2017
  • The third traces how those signals in sperm could become epigenetic vectors during and after fertilization to specify observable traits, known as phenotypes, in offspring.
    — Ivan Amato, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Given the negligible genetic difference between the quagga and the plains zebra, selective breeding with the goal of reduced striping was the project’s best shot at reviving the phenotype.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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