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Question

What is the difference between a genotype and a phenotype?

Is it true that you can't see a genotype but you can see a phenotype?

Answer 1

Genotype is the actual genetic code that causes a phenotype.

So, if you had a phenotype of blue eyes, the genotype is what causes it.

However, it's possible to have the same phenotypes, yet different genotypes. An example: if you carry the recessive trait for a disease, but are merely a carrier, you are the same phenotype as someone who isn't a carrier (since you don't exhibit the disease), but different genotype (because you do carry the gene).