PATHOLOGY MCQ
GENETICS AND DISEASE
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Question
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____ is the appearance of an organism, or how it looks
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phenotype
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ratio
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recessive trait
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heredity
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The term “phenotype” refers to the observable physical properties of an organism; these include the organism’s appearance, development, and behavior.
Detailed explanation-2: -(FEE-noh-tipe) The observable characteristics in an individual resulting from the expression of genes; the clinical presentation of an individual with a particular genotype.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
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