Genes

What instructions control your characteristics?
What controls the characteristics of a person? DNA determines the characteristics of a living organism. With the exception of identical twins, each pe...
What are genes made of
What is the difference between gene and DNA? Gene is coded with heredity information. DNA encodes the genetic instructions. A gene is present on a chr...
Genetics
What exactly are genetics? Genetics is the study of how different qualities, called traits, are passed down from parents to child. Genetics helps expl...
Gene mapping significance
What is gene mapping and write its uses? Gene mapping is the process of establishing the locations of genes on the chromosomes. Early gene maps used l...
How does a gene differ from a genome
Is a gene your genome? Your genes are so tiny you have around 20,000 of them inside every cell in your body! Human genes vary in size from a few hundr...
Linked genes
What are examples of linked genes? Linkage explains why certain characteristics are frequently inherited together. For example, genes for hair color a...
Unlinked genes
What are the features of unlinked genes? When genes are unlinked, they have a recombination frequency of 0.5, which means 50 percent of offspring are ...
Genetic map
How do you create a genetic map? To map a set of STSs a collection of overlapping DNA fragments from a single chromosome or the entire genome is requi...
Pair of genes
What is a pair of genes called? A pair of genes are called a pair of alleles and it is referred to as the genotype. If a person contains a pair of the...
This occurs when specific alleles are inherited together?
What is it called when genes are inherited together? Genetic linkage is the tendency of DNA sequences that are close together on a chromosome to be in...