AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In a broad sense, the term “genotype” refers to the genetic makeup of an organism; in other words, it describes an organism’s complete set of genes. In a more narrow sense, the term can be used to refer to the alleles, or variant forms of a gene, that are carried by an organism.

Detailed explanation-2: -A person’s genetic makeup is called a genotype.

Detailed explanation-3: -An organism’s genotype is the set of genes that it carries. An organism’s phenotype is all of its observable characteristics-which are influenced both by its genotype and by the environment.

Detailed explanation-4: -A person’s genotype is their unique sequence of DNA. More specifically, this term is used to refer to the two alleles a person has inherited for a particular gene. Phenotype is the detectable expression of this genotype – a patient’s clinical presentation.

Detailed explanation-5: -The different types of genotypes are-homozygous recessive (pp), homozygous dominant (PP), and heterozygous (Pp). The homozygous dominant and the heterozygous genotypes show the same phenotypes.