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-	Wildtype: a strain of an organism that scientists have generally agreed to serve as a reference strain to which mutants are compared to in the lab. Not to be confused with wild organisms.	+	Wildtype: a reference strain of an organism that scientists operationally define as "normal" to which mutants are compared. Not to be confused with wild organisms.