What exactly is you, your genotype or your phenotype?

[Benyzero]

No, it's not, if an allele is made up of dominant and recesive gene, only dominant is expressed in phenotype, recesive one still exist and you got it from one of your parents and you can pass it to your children. This is simple example, ofc it's much more complicated

Ok you don't have to explain. But that means you got the blue eye gene as me, but my eyes got brown because its recessive. Its in my genetic, but my genetic expression overwrite my phenotype. I know its complicated ofc, but this question hardly has any meaning. Its like saying Iam tall because I ate a lot of good food, but then where is genetics. It works both ways, but genetic expression determines phenotype for the most part.

[Sylvanas]

Uff, eye color is a bad example, a person’s eye color depends on how much of melanin is stored in the front layers of the iris and inheritance pattern is complex, there is no "blue eye gene" actually.
Genotype determinates phenotype in the way that what you see and what compose your body is in your code plus environmental effects. But it is not the same. Noo.
Honestly I don't know what you want to say Ofc that you can't be extremly tall if you don't have potential for being tall.

[Benyzero]

Uff, eye color is a bad example, a person’s eye color depends on how much of melanin is stored in the front layers of the iris and inheritance pattern is complex, there is no "blue eye gene" actually.
Genotype determinates phenotype in the way that what you see is in your code plus environmental effects. But it is not the same. Noo.
Honestly I don't know what you want to say Ofc that you can't be extremly tall if you don't have potential for being tall.

There is a gene that if you have both copies there is a big likelihood to get blue eyes. https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs12913832

I know it is more complex since patterns of color can differ from person to person.

[Benyzero]

I want to say that genotype, which ofcourse means a millions of copies, do determines phenotype. So this question has no further meaning

[Benyzero]

We can say that our ancestry means more to us than our phenotype, I would feel that more correct in terms

[TheMaestro]

I didnt expect criticism for my preference but i can explain a little bit more. My time is limited now, so it would be a short one.



This two man are brothers. Literally "the same" genotype. But one of them is top actor in my country and other is just a simple man. What makes this difference, if not the phenotype?

Albanian/Bosniak - Not Turk

[Sylvanas]

Brothers can have different genotype, it's not the same or identical. If genotype is different, ofc that phenotype is also different.

[Nicolaus]

you can be both of them, common people identify itself with nationality or ethnicity, that is also determined by genotype, so I'd say I am my genotype by ethnicity, and my phenotype by looking, simple.

[Guti]

If aliens take a DNA sample of a post-op tranny with lovely titties and they are going to reproduce/clone it. They will get a male human.

[Atlantic Reptilian]

I would say phenotype because you can't really tell someone's genotype without looking into their DNA, which you cannot do at first glance.
I can see when someone is my own phenotype by just looking at their face. I get this feeling of 'familiarity' despite them not being my relatives. We also have similar mentality so we get along very well.
Those that are more genetically distanced to me give me a 'strange' vibe. At first I thought that they had a crazy personality because their eyes were very big or bulging, but it was just a facial structure foreign to me.

Also, in my family I inherited my dads skull, which he in turn inherited from his dad and grandfather. My dads cousin has the same skull, only slightly different eyes. They look more like siblings.
Maybe the answer is also dependent on whether your phenotype is the dominant or recessive in the genotype.

I think it's healthy to get to know one's own type, just like getting to know your parents. It gives you a second perspective of yourself.