The probationary period usually runs from six months to one year and gives the supervisor or manager an opportunity to evaluate an employeeâs performance and conduct on the job, provide remedial opportunities and, if it is necessary, remove or reassign the employee.
(genetics) Characteristics or attributes of an organism that are expressed by genes and/or influenced by the environment. Supplement. Traits include physical attributes of an organism such as hair color, leaf shape, size, etc., and behavioral characteristics, such as bird nesting. Word origin: L tractus. See also: phenotype, inheritance, gene. Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page.
Blue human eye. A phenotypic trait, or simply trait, is a distinct variant of a phenotypic characteristic of an organism that may be inherited, be environmentally determined or be a combination of the two. For example, eye color is a character or abstraction of an attribute, while blue, brown and hazel are traits. trait may be any single feature or quantifiable measurement of an organism. However, the most useful traits for genetic analysis are present in different forms in different individuals. A visible trait is the final product of many molecular and biochemical processes.