phenotype

Organism physical, biochemical, and physiologic traits {phenotype}| result from genotype and environment interactions. Johannsen invented the word [1909]. Organisms can express behavior and structure genes. Some phenotypes confer better fitness and adaptation. Offspring phenotypes are typically intermediate between parent phenotypes.

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Phenotypes can have adaptations, be pleiotropes, have neutral fitness, or have exaptations.

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