Science Assignment - Geneticist

For those who have chosen "Geneticist" for their science assignment:

Here are some mostly asked questions:

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What is DNA?

DNA,or Deoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic information about your whole body. You may be shocked to know that your DNA is only made up of 4 proteins are Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Thymine, which make up the letters that you see in some DNA charts, A, C, G and T.

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What are genes?

A gene is a unit of the DNA which contains the information about your traits.Traits, or heredity was founded by Greger Mendel,who studied the growth of peas near his church(he was a priest). He is also the man behind the chromosomes Y and X.

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What are chromosomes?

Human cells contains two sets of chromosomes, one set given by each parent. Each set has 23 single chromosomes--22 autosomes and an X or Y sex chromosome. A normal female will have a pair of X chromosomes; a male will have an X and Y pair.