BharatNotes Phenotype
noun (also used attributively; the derived verb "phenotype" meaning "to determine the phenotype of" exists in technical usage)Usage in a UPSC answer
Public-health policy must reckon with the fact that the burden of non-communicable disease is not written in the genotype alone; the diabetic and hypertensive phenotype increasingly visible across urban India is the joint product of inherited predisposition and an environment of sedentary work, processed diets and chronic stress, which is precisely why nutrition and lifestyle interventions, not genetics, hold the key to prevention.
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Word Family
phenotypic (adj), phenotypically (adv), phenotyping (v pres.p), phenotypes (pl n)
Root
Greek phainein = to show, appear; typos = mark, type; coined by Wilhelm Johannsen in 1911
Etymology
From Greek phainein ("to show, appear") + typos ("mark, type"); coined by Danish botanist Wilhelm Johannsen in 1911.
Memory Hook
"PHENO" echoes "phenomenon" — both from Greek phainein, "to appear." A phenotype is the genome made into a visible PHENOMENON, the part of you that actually APPEARS (skin, height, behaviour), as opposed to the hidden genotype.
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