From the Greek 'pheno', meaning 'display'. The usage of the word phenotype is a very broad conceptual term, referring to observed traits and characteristics of organisms based on physical characteristics including biological processes, biophysics, structure(s) and behaviors. The word is more efficient grammatically, creating a term covering the descriptors than as categorization in practical forms, describing these very variable subjects. Phenotypes refer to an array of heterogeneous forms of data, across a wide spectrum of materials, rather than a specific class of information. |
Examples of Phenotypes:
Behavioral adaptions in animals Eye color Comparative morphologies in subspecies Carapace characteristics in insects Metabolic processes https://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/ahp/BioInfo/SD.Geno.HP.html https://rgd.mcw.edu/phenotypes/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/genotype-phenotype/ https://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/ahp/BioInfo/GP/Definition.html https://www.ess.ucla.edu/huge/genotype2.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenotype https://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/ahp/BioInfo/SD.Geno.HP.html |
![]() Biston betularia morpha typica, the standard light-coloured Peppered Moth. |
![]() Biston betularia morpha carbonaria, the melanic Peppered Moth, illustrating discontinuous variation. |
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