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

Other Words From

• wild-type adjective

Example Sentences

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.

From Time

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

From Time

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

From Time

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg