What is a GENE?–noun
the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA that provides the coded instructions for synthesis of RNA, which, when translated into protein, leads to the expression of hereditary character. (1)
the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA that provides the coded instructions for synthesis of RNA, which, when translated into protein, leads to the expression of hereditary character. (1)
In simple words that even a third grader can understand:
Genes are short pieces of DNA that makes protiens that tells your body what traits make you. You get your genes from your PARENTS! As an example if your mom and dad have brown eyes, you're most likely to get brown eyes. They do this by the genes producing protiens that tell your cells what to produce such aas curly hair. Protiens would tell the hair cells to curl your hair from genetics.
When genes make a nonfunctional protiens it turns into a cancer. The build up of cancer is a tumor. Cancer can be geneticlly inherited. White blood cells do try to fight the cancerous cells because the mutated cell is not part of your body but since caner cells divide so quickly they can't get them all.
BOOK=genome
Chapters=chromosomes(23)
paragraph=genes
sentences=gene splicing(to take part of DNA from diffrent chromosomes and putting them together)
words=3 base pairs
letters=A-T C-G
Sources
(1) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gene
(2) http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/what_is_gene.html
(3) http://www.medhelp.org/medical-information/show/1215/genes
