WILD TYPE


Meaning of WILD TYPE in English

Function: noun

Date: 1914

: a phenotype, genotype, or gene that predominates in a natural population of organisms or strain of organisms in contrast to that of natural or laboratory mutant forms also : an organism or strain displaying the wild type

– wild-type adjective

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