A U.S. state (abbreviation of United States state) is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the
exists and is an alternate of . The sequence of DNA bases (thymine, cytosine, adenine, and guanine) code for specific traits. The number of and which alleles you have (coded for my the DNA=genes) will determine traits such as eye color.
Often different genes can interact in a way that influences the same trait. In the Blue-eyed Mary (Omphalodes verna), for example, there exists a gene with alleles that determine the color of flowers: blue or magenta. Another gene, however, controls whether the flowers have color at all or are white.