The performance of a lifetime: A metaphor for the phenotype

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 112-127

  Lewis, Jeffrey ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; MEDICAL GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; FORECASTING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; METAPHOR; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0033278170     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.1999.0053     Document Type: Article

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