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Wild type
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Wild type, sometimes written wildtype or wild-type, is the typical form of an organism, strain, gene, or characteristic as it occurs in nature. Wild type refers to the most common phenotype in the natural population. The phenotype can be dominant or recessive.
In biology it relates specifically to the difference between a naturally occurring organism and one that has been deliberately mutated.
Mutant is an antonym of wildtype.