What are all the genes of an organism said to be?

Answer 1

Short Answer: Not quite.


This is a very general question so I'll answer all the possible questions you are asking.


DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic acid because that's what it is made out of.

DNA is different in to every individual organism.
Your DNA, among other things, is what gives you your own personal identity, separate to every other individual.

But different species, say, humans have very similar DNA, more similar than comparing them to dogs, another mammal, or plants and fungi.

So all poison ivy has similar DNA but each individual plant, because there is variation, has slightly different DNA.

Answer 2

Genes are found on chromosomes in the nucleus

Answer 3

a gene is the haradity or the passing of traits. example: your mom and dad both have brown hair, you have brown hair, brown hair is a gene.

Answer 4

All the genes of an organism are said to be its genome.

Answer 5

The genome contains all of an organism's genes.

Answer 6

The entire set of an organism's genes is called its genome.

Answer 7

DNA