Wild - type

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"Normal, nonmutant form of an organism; the form found in nature (i.e. in the wild)" <ref>Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter (2008) Molecular Biology of THE CELL. 5th ed. United States of America, Garland Science.</ref>

A wild-type is an organism with the most common [[Genotype|genotype]] or [[Phenotype|phenotype]] within a natural population. The wild-type [[Allele|allele]] is the normal, natural isolate of a [[Gene|gene]].

However the wild-type can also be arbitually designated to a certain [[Genotype|genotype]] or [[Phenotype|phenotype]], as a standard of comparison, for example to a [[Mutation|mutant]] organism.<ref>Daniel L. Hartl, Maryellen Ruvolo (2012) Genetics, Analysis of Genes and Genomes. 8th ed. USA. Higher Education</ref>  

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