types of genes

Discovery Science: Biology Human – Genetics and Heredity- A Feature Characteristics: Transcription

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Earth Science: Biology Human – Genetics and Heredity- A Feature Characteristics: Transcription Following the one-gene-one-polypeptide hypothesis, one particular gene is always responsible for forming one polypeptide. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) plays an essential role in converting genetic information into proteins. RNA is found in the cell nucleus as well as in cytoplasm, the cell interior; in … Read more

Discovery Science: Genetics and Heredity – Genes

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Earth Science: Genetics and Heredity – Genetics The science of genetics examines the mechanisms governing the inheritance of traits by the offspring of living things. Within the field, a distinction is often made between general or classical genetics, which deals mainly with the formal aspects of heredity, and molecular genetics, which researches the underlying phenomena … Read more