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Definition of Biotype

1. Noun. Organisms sharing a specified genotype or the genotype (or peculiarities) so shared.

Definition of Biotype

1. Noun. (genetics) a group of organisms having the same specific genotype ¹

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Definition of Biotype

1. a group of genetically similar organisms [n -S] : BIOTYPIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Biotype

1. 1. A population where all individuals are genetically identical. 2. A particular physiological or anatomical characteristic of an organism adapted to and living in a specific type of environment, distinctive from the same species of the organism adapted to a different type of environment. (19 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biotype

Literary usage of Biotype

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mechanism of Evolution in Leptinotarsa by William Lawrence Tower, Joseph Kumler Breitenbeecher (1918)
"The other pairs gave biotype 4 and biotype 3 (not shown). Three matings of biotype 4 (DEa) gave results like similar matings in F,. The biotype 8 extreme ..."

2. U. S. Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and Their Impact on the Health of the Persian by DIANE Publishing Company (1997)
"Brucella melitensis biotype 3 (ATCC 23458) Batch* 01-29-68 (2 each) Class ffl pathogen 23. Clostridium botulinum Type A (ATCC 25763) Batch* ..."

3. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1918)
"Thus, there is a biotype in which the tremors are absent, but mental deterioration present; a biotype in which the tremors are not accompanied by mental ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"Very striking is the tendency to produce a real biotype of the imbecile class, because imbeciles tend to segregate themselves and to intermarry. ..."

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