wild type

See also: wildtype and wild-type

English

Alternative forms

• wild-type
• wildtype

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Noun

wild type (plural wild types)

1. (biology) The typical form of an organism, strain, gene or characteristic as it occurs in nature; (Mendelian) the phenotype of the heterozygous genotype or homozygous dominant genotype.

Related terms

• in the wild

 

See also

• garden variety