Inheritance (part 1)

Question 1

Define a genotype

Answer 1

The genetic makeup of an organism. This describes all the alleles that an organism has

Question 2

Define a phenotype

Answer 2

The observable characteristics of an organism. This is caused by the interaction of the expression of a genotype and the environment

Question 3

Define a gene

Answer 3

The sequence of nucleotide bases that contains the genetic instructions to code for a polypeptide or functional RNA

Question 4

Define an allele

Answer 4

Different forms of a gene, there may be many alleles of a single gene