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Eukaryotic Chromosomes: |
- eukaryote chromosomes are made of DNA and proteins |
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Gene: |
- a heritable factor that controls and specific characteristic - consists of a length of DNA - occupies a specific position on a chromosome |
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Allele: |
- one specific form of a gene, differing from other alleles by one or a few bases only and occupying the same gene locus as other alleles of the gene - various specific forms of a gene are alleles - alleles differ from each other by one or only a few bases - new alleles are formed by mutation |
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Genome: |
- the whole of genetic information of an organism - the entire base sequences of human genes was sequenced in the Human Genome Project |
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Gene Mutation: |
a change to the base sequence |
