Coooool Comparison & Interesting Facts

Book (Genome)
1. Chapters (Chromosomes...23 pairs=46)
2. Paragraphs (Genes...20,000-30,000)
3. Sentences (Gene Splicing ... combining pieces of chromosomes)
4. Words ( 3-base Pairs...codon)
5. Letters (A-T...C-G)

• Gene is information that instructs the protein to make the traits
• A genes is a set of instructions that tells your body which traits you should have (you get them from your parents)
• Genes are a part of DNA
• RNA makes Amino Acids which make Proteins
• DNA has a lot of different vocabulary words that mean the same thing.
  
• Total genetic complement is the genome
• Another word for a mutation is cancer.

1. not all mutations are cancer
2. a cell that mutated in DNA is called a tumor

• Some cancers are genetically transmissive
• Reproduction of cells happen in your bone marrow
  

Is intelligence something that you can inherent? How much of "you" is influenced by your environment and how much is controlled by your genes?

What is so special about the DNA of a Red blood Cell? And how is its specialty adapted to it's function?

Hmmm! The special part about the DNA of a red blood cell is that there isn't one! This is possible because the red blood cell doesn't contain a nuclei. During a phase called maturism the nuclei is removed from the cells. Because the nuclei contains the DNA the cell then has no DNA :(!