Write an analogy to show the difference between genotype and phenotype

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A genotype is all of the POSSIBLE combinations of alleles that could POSSIBLY be expressed, a genotype is generally very large.

A phenotype is what is ACTUALLY expressed.

A good example is eye color...the possible eye colors in a human are green, blue, brown ect, these are genotypes. If a person has blue eyes, that is their personal phenotypic eye color, you can observe it. cure.eeus · 8 years ago 0 Thumbs up 0 Thumbs down Comment Report Abuse genotype is to phenotype as quantitative data is to qualitative data.

they are alike because genotype is a 2 letter code while phenotype is a physical description and quantitative data is data using numbers and qualitative data is data using physical descriptions hope this helps

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