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What is the genetic make-up of an organism?

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Step-by-step explanation:

In a broad sense,genetic makeup of an organism can be regarded as the

"genotype" . It gives description about

complete set of genes an organism.

If we narrow it, it can be reffered to as "alleles" , this is is variant forms of a gene which is been carried by an organism. For instance, Humans can be regarded as diploid organisms, i.e there are two alleles at their each genetic position along with one allele which is been inherited from each parent. genotype of a specific gene is been represented by "Each pair of alleles". Instance of this is of "sweet pea plants" the gene responsible for flowering color posses two alleles, One of the alleles is responsible for coding purple flowers, symbolized with

uppercase letter F, the other allele is responsible for coding of white flowers

symbolized with Lowercase letter" f "

There are three possible genotypes which could be featured for Different population of a sweet pea, which are

✓FF

✓Ff

✓ ff.

Genotype of each plant have some contribution to the phenotype, by saying this, we mean outward appearance of its flowers.

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