Definition of phenotype
:the observable properties of an organism that are produced by the interaction of the genotype and the environment
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But experts who subscribe to Dawkins’s extended phenotype idea, like Vollrath at Oxford, believe that webs are more like tools the spider uses.
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But in the extended phenotype perspective, that selection ultimately just works inward, to tweak the controlling information in the animal’s genome.
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That DNA evidence was used to create the phenotype image.
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As is often the case in nature, occupying a new niche requires radical mutations of the underlying phenotype.
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Origin and Etymology of phenotype
German Phänotypus, from Greek phainein to show + typos type
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