Where does “表現型” come from?

表現型 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 型 — choreographed training exercises.

表現型 (Japanese): a phenotype

Definitions

  1. a phenotype

Ancestry of “表現型”, step by step

表現型 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesechoreographed training exercises

via Japanese 表現

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese表現expression; representation; performance
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