A phenotypic trait, simply trait, or character state is a distinct variant of a phenotypic characteristic of an organism; it may be either inherited or...

number of QTLs which explain variation in the phenotypic trait indicates the genetic architecture of a trait. It may indicate that plant height is controlled...

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Look up trait or traits in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Trait may refer to: Phenotypic trait in biology, which involve genes and characteristics of...

breeding and genetics that estimates the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals...

reaction norms relative to a particular phenotypic trait and environment variable. For every genotype, phenotypic trait, and environmental variable, a different...

influences two or more seemingly unrelated phenotypic traits. Such a gene that exhibits multiple phenotypic expression is called a pleiotropic gene. Mutation...

become water- or salt-stressed. Because of phenotypic plasticity, it is hard to explain and predict the traits when plants are grown in natural conditions...

Domestication syndrome refers to two sets of phenotypic traits that are common to either domesticated plants or domesticated animals. Domesticated animals...

Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic trait determined by two factors: the pigmentation of the eye's iris and the frequency-dependence of the scattering...

influencing the population's future phenotypic ratio. Disruptive selection favors both extreme phenotypes while the moderate trait will be selected against. The...

such as those listed below. Purely Mendelian traits are a minority of all traits, since most phenotypic traits exhibit incomplete dominance, codominance...

group of non-epistatic genes that interact additively to influence a phenotypic trait, thus contributing to multiple-gene inheritance (polygenic inheritance...

disruptive selection is supporting two morphs, specifically when the phenotypic trait affects fitness rather than mate choice. In both situations, one where...

genotypic temperament trait dimensions might appear across different cultures, the phenotypic expression of personality traits differs profoundly across...

reached by the population during that process. Thirdly, it is a phenotypic trait or adaptive trait, with a functional role in each individual organism, that...

underlying genetic basis of a phenotypic trait and its variational properties. Phenotypic variation for quantitative traits is, at the most basic level...

degree the symptoms for said disease are shown (the expression of the phenotypic trait). Meaning that, even if the same disease-causing mutation affects separate...

biological trait) of a species across its geographical range. Clines usually have a genetic (e.g. allele frequency, blood type), or phenotypic (e.g. body...

genes to an organism's offspring, is the basis of the inheritance of phenotypic traits from one generation to the next. These genes make up different DNA...

reached by a population during that process. 3.  Any character or phenotypic trait with a functional role in an individual organism and which has evolved...

selection is not. Variation of traits, both genotypic and phenotypic, exists within all populations of organisms. However, some traits are more likely to facilitate...

Phenotypic integration is a metric for measuring the correlation of multiple functionally-related traits to each other. Complex phenotypes often require...

explaining the proportion of the phenotypic traits' variances and to show the "genomic heritabilities" of the traits (considering the total of the autosomal...

relations. By the 17th century, the term began to refer to physical (phenotypical) traits, and then later to national affiliations. Modern science regards...

are born into the same family. The presence of a given genetic or phenotypic trait in only one member of a pair of identical twins (called discordance)...

"Experimental alteration of DNA methylation affects the phenotypic plasticity of ecologically relevant traits in Arabidopsis thaliana" (PDF). Evolutionary Ecology...

However, sometimes different alleles can result in different observable phenotypic traits, such as different pigmentation. A notable example of this is Gregor...

In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic trait that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product...

Domestication syndrome is a term often used to describe the suite of phenotypic traits arising during domestication that distinguish crops from their wild...