Genetics

Heredity: genes, their transmission, and their variation.

Parent category: Biology

Articles (3)

• What Is Epigenetics? How Genes Switch On and Off
  Epigenetics explains how chemical marks on DNA and its packaging proteins switch genes on or off without changing the DNA sequence, which is why cells differ.
• Gene Expression
  The process by which information in a gene produces a functional product: transcription of DNA to RNA and translation of RNA to protein.
• Mendelian Inheritance
  The patterns of trait transmission discovered by Gregor Mendel: segregation and independent assortment of alleles.

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