Thursday, August 25, 2011

Genes

3.15 Understand that a gene is a section of a molecule of DNA

DNA molecule Example

This is showing the double helix shape characteristic.

This gene caries the information that forms that characteristic of the organisms. This could be a blood group, or even an eye color.

They are located in the nucleus. And the information is passed to the cytoplasm the genetic information is transformed into a protein which controls the production of the characteristic.

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