ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
Phenotype 948 Views
Share It!
Description:
Don't like how someone looks? Blame their phenotypes.
Transcript
- 00:00
Phenotype, a la Shmoop. Phenotype is the set of observable traits [guy gives girl flowers]
- 00:11
an individual has, like height or eye color. Genotype is, quite simply, what genes you [guy runs away with a pair of jeans]
- 00:17
have.
- 00:18
So… don’t count the ones you’ve given to Goodwill.
- 00:23
But even though organisms may share genes…[two penguins fight over a strand of DNA]
Full Transcript
- 00:26
… they’re not always expressed in the same way.
- 00:30
Think about twins. Haven’t you noticed that one is always good
- 00:34
and one is always evil? [good twin holds flower, evil one a bomb]
- 00:36
This is because genes don’t have the final word on the traits of an organism [girl carries basket of vegetables and then falls]
- 00:42
The environment also affects the expression of genes and the characteristics of that individual. [mutated him and dog walking around toxic waste]
- 00:50
This list of traits is called a phenotype. So… if you cloned Genghis Khan today, he
- 00:58
might not become a marauding warrior. He might be a barista.
- 01:04
If he gets your name wrong on your cup, probably best not to
- 01:26
correct him. [sword chops coffee in half]
Up Next
In this video, we dive beneath the sea to review the kinds of interesting animals that live in the deep blue.
Related Videos
Anything that has a cell (bacteria, listen up!) has phospholipids that keep the cell contained and give it form and shape. Phospholipids protect us...
GMOs. Now that’s a scary word. Or is it? Guess it’s time to ask ourselves: WWMST? ...For those of us who don’t constantly ask ourselves “wh...
We’re pretty sure that a parsec is the amount of time it takes a golfer to make par, but just in case we’re wrong, let’s check out this video.