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wild type

noun

, Genetics.
  1. an organism having an appearance that is characteristic of the species in a natural breeding population.
  2. the form or forms of a gene commonly occurring in nature in a given species.


wild type

noun

  1. biology the typical form of a species of organism resulting from breeding under natural conditions
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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  • wild-type adjective
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Among the non-hospitalized patients, immune responses were still strong enough to prevent disease when it came to the wild type virus and the Alpha variant.

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For the wild type, the response was uniform—and encouraging.

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All subjects showed weaker immunity to the variants compared to the wild type.

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The wild-type mice were given random compounds, along with half of the mutants.

But killing bacteria, especially fully armed wild-type bacteria?

The F1 (wild-type) flies from bow male by arc female were inbred.

Whether the latter represents a truly wild type now extinct, cannot be determined.

When yellow (not-sable) females were mated to (not-yellow) sable males they gave wild-type (gray) daughters and yellow sons.

Sable males of the purified stock were mated to wild females and gave wild-type (gray) males and females.

Yellow sable males were bred to wild females and F1 consisted of wild-type males and females.

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