wildtype
n.— «“Our laboratory testing of the vCT using the BD ProbeTec System revealed that the vCT was as easily detected as the ’wildtype’ CT.” “Wildtype” is the term for the common circulating strain of an organism.» —“Variant Strain of Chlamydia May Go Undetected” in Baltimore, Maryland PR Newswire APr. 26, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Diamond dust, tapioca snow, and sugar icebergs — a 1955 glossary of arctic and subarctic terms describes the environment in ways that sound poetic. And a mom says her son is dating someone who’s non-binary. She supports their relationship, but...
A resident of Michigan’s scenic Beaver Island shares the term, boodling, which the locals use to denote the social activity of leisurely wandering the island, often with cold fermented beverages. There have been various proposed etymologies...
I don’t know if this makes a difference, but this is very much a term of art, not slang or scientific vernacular. If I’m not mistaken, it goes back in genetics literature hundreds of years.