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Keywords: Heredity, Hereditary, Dna, Polypeptide, Trait

Related Terms: Amplicon, Expression, Promoter, Genes , Gene Product, Intron, Gene Expression, Genetic Marker, Genomic Dna, Marker, Deletion Mutation, Primosome, Dna Methylation, Pseudogene, Dna Probe, Homeobox, Methylation, Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, Snp, Replisome, Dna Sequence, Exon, Expression Vector, Transcription Factors, Point Mutation, Transcription Unit, Molecular Genetics, In Situ Hybridization, Exons, Rdna, Cistron, Allozymes, Alternative Splicing, Operon, Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, Insertion, Operator, Restriction Endonuclease, Restriction Enzyme, Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism, Klenow Fragment, Replicon, Recombinant, Repressor, Origin Of Replication, Coding Sequence, Introns, Markers, Okazaki Fragment, Pseudogenes

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a biological unit of heredity composed of DNA that has a specific function.

http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/primaryimmunobooklet.htm

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Part of the nucleus of a cell that determines how our bodies look and work. Genes are passed from parents to children

http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/history/medhist/page45_glossary.html

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A portion of DNA in the nucleus of a cell which controls an inheritable trait.

http://www.bcpinstitute.org/glossary_3.htm

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A part of the cell that determines hereditary traits.

http://www.treathiv.com/patient_info/glossary.html

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