GENES

Background Study:

CELL
the smallest unit that can live on its own and that
makes up all living organisms and the tissues of the
body. A cell has three main parts: the cell membrane,
the nucleus, and the cytoplasm.
What is Genes?
 
-A gene is the functional and physical unit
of heredity passed from parent to offspring.

-Genes are pieces of DNA ( Deoxyribonucleic Acid) and most genes contain the
information for making a specific protein.
GENOME
 A genome is an organism’s complete set of genetic instructions. Each
genome contains all of the information needed to build that organism
and allow it to grow and develop.
 Our bodies are made up of millions of cells? (100,000,000,000,000),
each with their own complete set of instructions for making us, like a
recipe book for the body.
 The instructions in our genome are made up of DNA.
 Within DNA is a unique chemical code that guides our growth,
development and health.
 This code is determined by the order of the four nucleotide bases
that make up DNA, adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine, A, C, G
and T for short.
 DNA has a twisted structure in the shape of a double helix.
 Single strands of DNA are coiled up into structures
called chromosomes
 Chromosomes vs Autosomes

CHROMOSOME AUTOSOMES
 a threadlike structure of nucleic  An autosome is any chromosome
acids and protein found in that is not a sex chromosome
the nucleus of most living cells,
carrying genetic information in the
form of genes.
 DNA molecule is packaged into
thread-like structures called
chromosomes