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wild type
vs.
mutant
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wild type
wild type vs. mutant
wild type
noun
an organism having an appearance that is characteristic of the species in a natural breeding population.
the form or forms of a gene commonly occurring in nature in a given species.
mutant
[
myoot
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adjective
noun