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Definition of Biotypes
1. biotype [n] - See also: biotype
Lexicographical Neighbors of Biotypes
Literary usage of Biotypes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"Since groups differentiated by a single hereditary character are called biotypes,
the question of the origin of species is now that of the origin of ..."
2. The Mechanism of Evolution in Leptinotarsa by William Lawrence Tower, Joseph Kumler Breitenbeecher (1918)
"biotypes 2 to 8 are found associated in the species with the form and body ...
To recognize these biotypes is of little or no use unless they be tested ..."
3. The Corn Crops: A Discussion of Maize, Kafirs, and Sorghums as Grown in the by Edward Gerrard Montgomery (1913)
"There is greater probability of .securing biotypes that would combine to advantage
... A field of corn appears to be a miscellaneous mixture of biotypes, ..."
4. East Asian Experience in Environmental Governance: Response in a Rapidly by Zafar Adeel (2003)
"... which controls most of the susceptible biotypes (selection pressure), causing
a rapid population shift in favour of the resistant biotypes • the number ..."
5. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1915)
"If we cross two biotypes which differ by certain characters, an increase in
variability is obtained in the second generation after the cross. ..."
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