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wild type (plural wild types)

  1. (biology, ecology) The typical form of an organism, strain, gene or characteristic as it occurs in nature.
    1. (biology, Mendelian) The phenotype of the dominant allele (heterozygous genotype or homozygous dominant genotype).

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