Talk:Genotype

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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · refresh) rated top as high school/SAT biology content - tameeria 14:36, 17 February 2007 (UTC) This article needs expansion/clarification, references, and images (e.g. explaining genotype-phenotype distinction). - tameeria 18:21, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Should be improved

The description of "genotyping" is not advanced enough. There should be an improvement in the section of "Genotyping" before merging with "Genotype", but I do agree that they could be merged.

[edit] To Merge or Not

It may be possible to merge the topics, however, people are often only interested in genotyping, as a process, because it is widely referred to within news releases related to research. If you hide genotyping within genotype, you'll make it much more difficult for people to get to what they are looking for -- though I don't know if that is actually a consideration for Wikipedia.

Obviously, genotyping would immediately lead to genotypes, genetics and wide variety of technologies involved in genotyping. As stated above, this section is horribly deficient at the current time.