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Alenkinab [10]
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What is a gene? on edge

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Nezavi [6.7K]3 years ago
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A gene is the basic physical and functional unit of heredity. Genes are made up of DNA. Some genes act as instructions to make molecules called. Every person has two copies of each gene, one inherited from each parent.

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