How to Use genotype in a Sentence
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Are all genotypes with one phenotype in one corner of that space?
—Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
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The nursery is home to five different species and 12 genotypes.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2024
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What will the proportion of the three genotypes in the first generation be?
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
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That is why Phylos’ genotype test can be a valuable tool for cannabis growers and breeders.
—Hannah Wallace, WIRED, 24 July 2019
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This is in part coded by your genotype, the genetic software that powers the hardware.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 12 Feb. 2020
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These first landscapes comprised only about 20 to 40 or so genotypes.
—Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
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Chimerism is a term in genetics that describes a single organism with two distinct genotypes.
—Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2019
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Those viruses with greater than 15 percent genetic variation are said to be of the same genotype.
—Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017
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The Pima would not have survived the frequent famines through the centuries without evolving their thrifty genotype.
—Sylvia Tara, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
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My soul is not in my genes, and certainly my genotype reflects me with far less obvious fidelity than a photograph would.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2013
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The lab GenoPalate works with performs a genotype by using micro-arrays, disc-like devices to read the variants in the genes.
—Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2017
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That means millions of genotypes that can be used by clinicians and researchers to home in on and characterize genes linked to specific diseases.
—Maryam Zaringhalam, Slate Magazine, 18 May 2017
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And that genotype is also associated with thyroid cancer risk.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2018
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Research has even revealed coral genotypes that are more tolerant of temperature changes, which can be transplanted into more at-risk sites.
—Rachel Brown, National Geographic, 15 Feb. 2017
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Now they are increasingly distinguished by their specific genotype that reveals which of the panoply of genes that can make a cell cancerous have gone wrong in this one.
—The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
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Mattinison was, perhaps, one of the last of an almost extinct genotype—the happy company man, the lifer.
—Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
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Two genotypes combine, a process unfolds, and a couple months later, the results materialize.
—Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
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Determining your genotype is one thing, but puzzling out its implications is another.
—Krithika Varagur, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
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People started to create collections of genotypes and studied their phenotypes.
—Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
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While three of the team’s infections showed different variants indicating those infections came outside the team, one genotype raced through the club.
—Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
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But soon afterward, their descendants apparently stopped mixing as much and evolved distinct local genotypes.
—Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 14 Sep. 2017
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Ultimately the subjects' genotypes did not appear to influence their responses to the diets.
—Author: Anahad O'Connor, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2018
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Ultimately the subjects’ genotypes did not appear to influence their responses to the diets.
—Anahad O’Connor, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
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The center has offered to cover the lab fees associated with creating a genotype profile to search for relatives.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2026
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The test is sensitive and accurate enough to detect all six major hepatitis C genotypes and can be performed on both whole blood and plasma samples.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 19 Dec. 2025
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Meanwhile, scientists are working rapidly to learn more about plants’ genes, or their genotype, and match these genetic traits with the plants’ physical traits, or their phenotype.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2021
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The genotype frequencies remain unchanged between the first and second generations.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
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The team is also using the phenotype and genotype data to determine how to grow plants without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2022
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Both species harbor the same bacterial genotype, called 3I, that has been linked to human infections in medieval Europe.
—Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 11 Nov. 2020
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All of the children carried a genotype associated with Type 1 diabetes and celiac disease.
—Scottie Andrew, CNN, 13 Aug. 2019
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Again, thanks to the people who contributed to genotype the second person.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2012
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To avoid contamination, team members had their DNA genotyped so their own sequences could be identified and removed from the samples.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
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The participants were also not genotyped to determine if there was a predetermined risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
—Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 28 July 2023
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Although Eli Lilly did not disclose any participant data related to genotyping or use of blood thinners, outside scientists are eager to see such data to evaluate the drug’s risks.
—Byjohn Travis, science.org, 3 May 2023
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The condition is triggered by Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII (TMVII), the same fungal species that causes ringworm.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 17 Feb. 2026
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