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biotype Biol.|ˈbaɪətaɪp|
[f. bio- + type n.1]
A group of organisms having a common genotype. Hence ˌbiotyˈpology [-ology], the study of biotypes.
1906W. Johannsen in Rep. Third Internat. Conference Genetics 98 It remains quite uncertain whether the numbers..contain a multitude, or a few, or only one single ‘sort’ of organism—‘biotypes’ as I have called them. Ibid. 111 To elucidate the origin and conduct of the veritable types of organism, the ‘biotypes’. 1937Nature 11 Sept. 471/2 One section of the International Congress was devoted to matters coming under such heads as biometry, biotypology and heredity. 1955New Biol. XVIII. 114 Evidently the East Anglian colony [of Nymphæa alba] contains a far greater range of biotypes than this particular Irish one. 1957Encycl. Brit. XXI. 177/2 Biotype..is used for a population of individuals with identical genotypical constitution under similar conditions... Parallel mutation may possibly account for some biotypes. |