The ears are involved in balance, but it's more than just them.
Your eyes are also important, as well as your body's sense of where it is in space.
There’s a lot but probably you know the basics like they’re vertebrates which means they got back bones , they have a scaly skin , they reproduce shelled eggs , cold blooded
Every cell of the organism has the same DNA sequence and same genes. However, not all genes are expressed in every single cell at the same time. Only those genes necessary for a specialised function of a specialised cell are expressed in the specialised cell. For example, skin cells have some different proteins than nerve cells. Genes responsible for those "skin proteins" are activated in skin cells and are turned off in nerve cells.