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How would heredity in humans be different if all the genes were on 2 chromosomes?
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People would not be able to have sex.
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What determines which traits an organism will have?
Genes and heredity
How many genes are found on each of your chromosomes?
Humans have 46 chromosomes (23 pairs), chromosomes are long strands of genes, and since the chromosomes come in pairs, so do the genes. There are 25,000 genes in the entire human genome, and since the haploid chromosome number is 23, there are about 100's of genes on the shorter chromosomes and approximately thousands on the longer chromsomes.
Is a gene the same thing as a chromosome?
No - genes are sections of DNA found on chromosomes that encode for a functional product (like a protein).Chromosomes are compact structures of DNA and proteins.
Are chromosomes found on genes?
Genes are located on chromosomes and not chromosomes are located on genes. genes are the basic unit of inheritance and they resides on chromosomes.
What is the study of genetics?
The science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms.
What is the units of heredity of a cell?
Genes are the units of hereditary material. Through genes, proteins are coded that will make up all of our characteristics. Genes are in a pair and are pieces of genetic material known as DNA. Humans have about 35,000 different genes that are organized into forms called chromosomes.
Why are genes important to heredity in humans?
Genes ARE heredity.
Where is the units of heredity found?
the units of heredity are genes and these are present on chomosomes which are present in nucleus.
What factors are inherited traits controlled by?
Yes, heredity is controlled by chromosomes. Both parents pass on their genes (chromosomes) to their child, including both dominant and recessive genes.
Genes the determiners of heredity are located on the what?
Chromosomes the genes are located on chromosomes in the nucleus of each plant cell.
Located on chromosomes and carry heredity instructions?
genes
What role do DNA and chromosomes play in heredity?
according to the chromosome theory of inheritance,genes are carried from parents to their offspring on chromosomes.
What are the 2 main structures involved in heredity?
chromosomes and genes on my guess!!
What role do chromosomes and genes play in determining a child's heredity?
Genes are the basic unit of genetic inheritance. Chromosomes are the structures inside cells that contain the entire genome. Naturally, genes and the chromosomes that contain them, and how genes arrange themselves on the daughter chromosomes during meiosis are critical to the process of determining the heredity of the offspring.
The transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring by means of the genes in the chromosomes of cells?
heredity
What is the role that the chromosomes play in inheritance?
Take apart the two words "heredity" and "vehicles". Heredity means the passing of physical or mental characteristics whilst vehicle is a transportation device. Chromosomes carry genetic information through genes. Therefore they are the method where characteristics are transported (usually by procreation).
Do humans have 46 genes?
No. The human cell has 23 chromosome pairs (total 46 chromosomes). Each chromosome has many genes.
