What does "wild type" mean?

The typical form of an organism, strain, gene or characteristic as it occurs in nature.

Wild type

Common synonyms include: natural, normal, normal allele, reference genotype, reference model, standard.

noun

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Noun

1
The typical form of an organism, strain, gene or characteristic as it occurs in nature.
2
The typical form of an organism, strain, gene or characteristic as it occurs in nature.; The phenotype of the dominant allele (heterozygous genotype or homozygous dominant genotype).