Glossary of HIV/AIDS Terms
This glossary contains 1,600 terms and is maintained by the editors of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS.
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phenotype (adjective phenotypic): visible characteristics or behavior that result from the interaction of an organism’s genetic "blueprint" (genotype) and the environment; phenotypic resistance testing determines whether an organism is susceptible to a specific drug in a test tube.
Compare with genotype.