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The set of expressed traits of an organism are called its phenotype, whereas the genes within the organism are called its genotype. Since Mendel’s experiments, we have known that the traits an offspring expresses (phenotype) are not simply a mixing of the traits it got from the two sets of genes it inherited from its parents (genotype).