Phenotypic Trait
A trait is a distinct variant of a phenotypic character of an organism that may be inherited, be environmentally determined or be a combination of the two. For example, eye color is a character or abstraction of an attribute, while blue, brown and hazel are traits.
Read more about Phenotypic Trait: Definition, Genetic Origin of Traits in Diploid Organisms, Mendelian Expression of Genes in Diploid Organisms, Biochemistry of Dominance and Extensions To Expression of Traits
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“The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe.... The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.”
—Janet Malcolm (b. 1934)