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Differentiate between phenotype and genotype?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    genotype is your actual genetic code, including all genes

    phenotype is what expresses (what actually shows or functions)

    so someone with a Bb genotype for eye colour (one brown and one blue gene) will have a phenotype of brown eyes bc thats what colour their eyes will actually be.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    The genotype is the particular genetic makeup (the particular genome) of a guy or woman, interior the form of DNA. alongside with the environmental version that is affecting the guy, it codes for the phenotype of that distinctive. Non-hereditary mutations are no longer classically understood as representing the persons' genotype. subsequently, scientists and medical doctors now and back communicate as an occasion with regard to the (geno)form of a particular maximum cancers, subsequently putting apart the ailment from the diseased. on a similar time as codons for various amino acids could exchange in a random mutation (changing the series coding a gene), this would not unavoidably alter the phenotype. The phenotype of a guy or woman organism is the two its entire actual visual charm and shape or a particular manifestation of a trait, jointly with length, eye shade, or habit that varies between persons. Phenotype is set to three quantity with the help of genotype, or with the help of the id of the alleles that a guy or woman includes at various of positions on the chromosomes. Many phenotypes are desperate with the help of diverse genes and inspired with the help of environmental factors. subsequently, the id of one or some known alleles would not continuously enable prediction of the phenotype.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Genotype is the genetic make-up of an individual, what the gene code actually says.

    Phenotype is the observable make-up of an individual, what the code actually produces.

    Although the majority of phenotype is predictable based on genotype, environmental

    and gene-interactions, act as modifiers on what becomes the observable individual.

    Genotype is Heredity's contribution.

    Phenotype is Environment's effect.

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