r/Genes

491 archived posts · Jun 2014 – Sep 2026

Genes

r/Genes

A focus on genes, how they're made, what they unfold to become

Created Jun 8, 2014

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The 'Genes' reddit

Genes - the molecular units of heredity of a living organism. They are used extensively by the scientific community as names given to some stretches of deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA) and ribonucleic acids (RNA) that code for a polypeptide or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. Living beings depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains. Genes hold the information to build and maintain an organism's cells and pass genetic traits to offspring. All organisms have genes corresponding to various biological traits, some of which are instantly visible, such as eye color or number of limbs, and some of which are not, such as blood type, increased risk for specific diseases, or the thousands of basic biochemical processes that comprise life. The word gene is derived from the Greek word genesis meaning "birth", or genos meaning "origin" Wikipedia: Gene

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