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What is a genotype and what is a phenotype? Also what are dominant and recessive alleles and how are they written out?

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An organism's genotype is its specific combination of alleles for a given gene. ... The phenotype is the physical manifestation of an organism's allellic combination (genotype). For the pea plants, if the red allele is dominant and the white allele is recessive, only two phenotypes are possible.

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