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Wild type Definition:

  • Phenotype for a character most commonly observed in natural populations, such as red eyes in Drosophila, is called the wild type.

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Wild type Notes:

Wild type refers to the phenotype of the typical form of a species as it occurs in nature. Originally, the wild type was conceptualized as a product of the standard "normal" allele at a locus, in contrast to that produced by a non-standard, "mutant" allele. However now the wild type allele is usually used in the context of natural occurring allele in the nature, it maybe mutant or normal.

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