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 ________________.
A)genes; chromosomes
B)genotype; phenotype
C)chromosomes; genes
D)phenotype; genotype

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The recipe represents the genotype, which is the genetic makeup of an organism, and the actual finished cake represents the phenotype, which is the observable characteristics or traits of an organism that result from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.

A Gourmet Chef Bakes a Cake Following a Recipe