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What is the most common phenotype?

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That's a tricky question. On most levels, phenotype is unique to each organism. A phenotype of a bacteria is very different from phenotype of e.g. human.

Although, with a bit of cleverness, assuming that bacteria are the most common and the most numerous organisms on Earth, it could be correctly said that bacterial body is the most common phenotype.

Even better, if we took the phenotype as a molecular level of phenotype, it could be said that DNA replicating, to-RNA-transcripting body, body with protein synthesis based on mRNA and ribosomes is the most common phenotype. :)

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This question can be interpreted a few different ways. If you were asking for the answer to a definition then it would be called the wild type, where the changed phenotype is the mutant.

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