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What happens inside the cells of living organisms that allows them to express different phenotypes? Think about the structure of DNA and the processes of meiosis, transcription, and translation.​

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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

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Each distinct genome underlies a unique epigenetic landscape (middle), which defines what cell phenotypes are possible (top). This allows both for cells with identical genomes to adopt distinct phenotypes, and also for cells with distinct genomes to identify identical phenotypes (left VS right)

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