Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of organisms having the same genotype.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a group of organisms sharing the same genotype.
- noun the genotype shared by a
biotype{1} .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun genetics a
group oforganisms having the same specificgenotype
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun organisms sharing a specified genotype or the genotype (or peculiarities) so shared
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Examples
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Haiti ' s national public-health laboratory and the CDC identified it in late October as Vibrio cholerae O1, serotype Ogawa, biotype El Tor.
Haiti Betsy McKay 2010
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In a semi-arid biotype, the park is the only area with much vegetation, hence the term 'Ghana' meaning 'thicket'.
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And so, as I was thinking about this I focused on this organism, which is the El Tor biotype of the organism called Vibrio choleri.
Paul Ewald asks, Can we domesticate germs? Paul Ewald 2007
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And so, as I was thinking about this I focused on this organism, which is the El Tor biotype of the organism called Vibrio choleri.
Paul Ewald asks, Can we domesticate germs? Paul Ewald 2007
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And so, as I was thinking about this I focused on this organism, which is the El Tor biotype of the organism called Vibrio choleri.
Paul Ewald asks, Can we domesticate germs? Paul Ewald 2007
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The vibrio responsible for the seventh pandemic, now in progress, is known as V. cholerae O1, biotype El Tor.
Chapter 2 2000
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A mutated "biotype B" insect emerged in Napa Valley in 1980 and did an estimated $6 billion of damage before wide-scale uprooting, burning and replanting was completed in 1995.
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"Identifying a biotype that can overcome Rag1 and Rag2 resistance, even before soybean varieties with these resistance genes were deployed in production, suggests high variability in virulence within soybean aphid populations," said Curt Hill, U of I principal research specialist.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The discovery of an aphid biotype that can overcome the gene means breeders and seed companies will need to keep pace with the pest.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The discovery of an aphid biotype that can overcome the gene means breeders and seed companies will need to keep pace with the pest.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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