Genetic and environmental factors affect which traits are passed on from parent to offspring over generations and how they are passed on. Favorable traits for a given environment are passed on from parent to offspring. Unfavorable traits are selected against and inherited less frequently over time because they do not promote survival and reproduction.

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Explanation:

an organism's phenotype is the  form of a trait  that it  displays. for  flowercolor, a pea  plant  can  display  a phenotype of purple or white flowers. an organism's  genotype  is the alleles of a gene it contains. based on his data, mendel concluded that a phenotype can be  determined  by more than one  genotype.

genetic variation can be caused by mutation (which can create entirely new alleles in a population), random mating, random fertilization, and recombination between homologous chromosomes during meiosis (which reshuffles alleles within an organism's offspring).