B1-You and your genes
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- Created on: 05-05-15 14:54
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- Proteins
- Enzymes speed up chemical reactions in the body
- Send chemical messages around the body.
- Fight bacteria and viruses
- Carry oxygen in the blood
- Build cells
- B1: You and your genes
- Keywords
- Chromosome
- Long, thin,threadlike structures in the nucleus of a cell made from a molecule of DNA. Chromosomes carry the gene.
- Enzymes
- A protein that catalyses (speeds up) chemical reactions in living things
- DNA
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- Chromosome
- Sperm paternal gamete
- Egg maternal gamete
- People who don't look identical to you is known as variation...
- Variation
- Better adapted to the environment than others
- Higher chance of survival
- Better chance of existing
- Higher chance of survival
- Sexual reproduction
- DNA
- Better adapted to the environment than others
- Variation
- Genes are responsible for the production of proteins, and in physical terms, make us what we are
- Half the DNA of parent in nucleus of every gamete
- Alleles come in two forms: Dominate and recessive
- 23 pairs of chromosomes to mix and match 1000s of different genes and alleles
- Keywords
- Move muscles
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