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Trait may refer to: * Phenotypic trait in biology, which involve genes and characteristics of organisms * Genotypic trait, sometimes but not always presenting as a phenotypic trait * Trait (computer programming), a model for structuring object-oriented programs (a template class in the C++ programming language) * Personality, traits that predict an individual's behavior. ** Trait theory in psychology Entertainment * ''Trait'' (album), the first and only EP by the industrial rock/metal band Pailhead * ''Traits'' (Joe Morris album) * Trait (role-playing games) A statistic (or stat) in role-playing games is a piece of data that represents a particular aspect of a fictional character. That piece of data is usually a (unitless) integer or, in some cases, a set of dice. For some types of statistics, thi ...

Phenotypic Trait
A phenotypic trait, simply trait, or character state is a distinct variant of a phenotype, phenotypic characteristic of an organism; it may be either heredity, inherited or determined environmentally, but typically occurs as a combination of the two.Lawrence, Eleanor (2005) ''Henderson's Dictionary of Biology''. Pearson, Prentice Hall. For example, having eye color is a ''character'' of an organism, while blue, brown and hazel versions of eye colour are ''traits''. The term ''trait'' is generally used in genetics, often to describe phenotypic expression of different combinations of alleles in different individual organisms within a single Population genetics, population, such as the famous purple vs. white flower coloration in Gregor Mendel, Gregor Mendel's pea plants. By contrast, in systematics, the term is ''character state'' is employed to describe features that represent fixed diagnostic differences among taxa, such as the absence of tails in great apes, relative to othe ...
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