Defenition of the word phenotype
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Defenition of the word phenotype
- The visible appearance of an individual (with respect to one or more traits) which reflects the reaction of a given genotype with a given environment.
- the constitution of an organism as determined by the interaction of its genetic constitution and the environment
- what an organism looks like as a consequence of its genotype; two organisms with the same phenotype can have different genotypes
- what an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment
Hypernyms for the word phenotype
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- composition
- constitution
- make-up
- makeup
- physical composition
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