The Fundamental Difference Between an Organism's Genotype and Its Phenotype

question 61

Multiple Choice

The fundamental difference between an organism's genotype and its phenotype is that _______.

• A) the phenotype refers to all of the genetic material in the organism, whereas the genotype represents only the genetic material that is expressed into proteins
• B) the genotype refers to eukaryotic genes that contain both introns and exons, whereas phenotype refers to bacterial DNA that has only exons
• C) the genotype refers to the organism's genes and the phenotype refers to the non-coding segments of DNA
• D) the genotype refers to all of the genetic material in the organism, whereas the phenotype represents only the genetic material that is expressed into proteins