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
Famous quotes containing the word trait:
“I am the family face;
Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
Through time to times anon,
And leaping from place to place
Over oblivion.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)