Genetics

Categories: Science | Biology
    • It's estimated there are 20,000-25,000 genes in the human genome
    • Gregor Mendel is known as the Father of Genetics
    • If you stretched out the DNA in just one of your cells, it would be about 2 yards long
    • In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick were the first to describe the double-helix structure of DNA
    • Humans have 46 Chromosones, Fruit flies have 8, and Mice have 40
  • Genetics is the science/study of heredity and genes in living organisms.
  • Glossary

    1. Nucleotides: Organic molecules that make up DNA, RNA as well as many other complex compounds found in cells.
    2. DNA: A chain of nucleic acid that stores encoded genetic information via strings of nucleotides (Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, Cytosine)
    3. Chromosome: A standardized structure of DNA molecules
    4. Gene: A small inheritable portion of a genomic sequence

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