A gourmet chef bakes a cake following a recipe.The specifics of how the cake turns out depends not only on the recipe but also on the quality of ingredients used,the quality of the oven it is baked in,and so on.In this example,the recipe is the _____ and the actual finished cake is the ______.

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The recipe serves as the genotype, which provides the basic genetic information, while the finished cake is the phenotype, which is the expression of the genotype in the actual cake produced.

A Gourmet Chef Bakes a Cake Following a Recipe