What is the relationship between genes and the appearance of an organism?
Genes interact with an organisms environment in order to create appearances. This relationship demonstrates the connection between an organisms genotype and phenotype. The genotype of an individual is the genetic information carried by the organism’s genes , whether or not the genes are actively expressed as proteins . In comparison, the phenotype denotes all the observable characteristics of an individual, such as physical appearance (eye color, height, etc.) and internal physiology. It is determined in part by genes and in part by environment and way of life. Q: How are genes regulated? A: Each living thing carries a full set of all its genes in all of the cells in its body. But all of the genes cannot be active in all of the cells. Cells are different and carry out different tasks because only some of the genes are switched on. Living things have several ways of controlling the activity of their genes. In some cases a cell makes extra copies of a particular gene, in the form of extr
