Question

Give appropriate terms for the following: (ii) Genetic-makeup of an individual

Answer 1

The genetic makeup of an organism is the set of genes present in the organism.

The appropriate term for denoting an individual's genetic makeup:

• Genotype denotes the genetic makeup of an organism.
• Genotype indicates the alleles present in an individual.
• A genotype is denoted with a pair of letters. They can be either small letters or capital letters or a combination of both.
• For example; a true-breeding tall plant is represented as TT, a true-breeding dwarf plant as tt, and a tall plant with two factors or alleles as Tt.