`Science' literature - mostly written by posers who've read a
  lot of books but understood little - continually throws up the
  words "phenotype" and "genotype" - Pah!

  We all know what a "phenomenon" is. When you stub your toe, that's
  a "phenomenon" - something that exists in the real, physically
  recognizable world.

  So a "phenotype" is therefore supposed to be an complete "being"
  - an animal or human which is supposedly the expression (or 
  "product") of a genetic pattern (or "genotype").
  
  But that "phenotype" or set of circumstances that enables the
  being to exist could, in the case of a human being, include 
  _all_ of their ancestors and _all_ of their environmments,
  right up to the present day.

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  On the other hand a "genotype" would seem to be simple. It's
  straight code. A piece of DNA - or any other genetic material
  (we don't know what other beings use for genes) - which says
  "when dictated by temperature, chemical or other signal, you
  will produce this protein".

  So a genotype is straight code - Yes?

  Yes - 

  the genotype of the scientists is straight DNA code.

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  However the `scientists' are woefully ignorant of reality

  see
  http://www.perceptions.couk.com/blinded.html

  There are _no_ DNA codes that do not completely rely on constant
  input and feedback - from the environment - to do their work 
  properly.

  That environment consists of "phenotypes"

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  But there does exist an environment where a genotype exists 
  free of all physical constraints, and where its phenotype 
  (its physical expression) is identical.

  One such is `information space' - either inside a computer

  see
  http://www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/wb2.html#parasites

  or maybe in our own - energy rich - external universe.

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