LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The term “phenotype” refers to the observable physical properties of an organism; these include the organism’s appearance, development, and behavior. An organism’s phenotype is determined by its genotype, which is the set of genes the organism carries, as well as by environmental influences upon these genes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Polygenic inheritance can be explained by additive effects of many loci: if each “capital” allele contributes one increment to the phenotype. With one locus and additive effects we have three phenotypic classes: AA, Aa and aa.

Detailed explanation-3: -In humans, phenotype examples include earwax type, height, blood type, eye color, freckles, and hair color.