Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Genes & Red Blood Cells

Genes is a section in a DNA strand that holds the instructions for a specific function.


The Book of Brenda 
1. A chapter - which are chromosomes, You get 23 pairs from each parent so in total you have 46. 
2. A paragraph- which are Genes, you have 20,000 - 30,000 genes in your body!
3. Sentences- Which is like gene splicing, the TRNA and the MRNA
2. Words- which are the codons that make up the DNA
1. Letters- there are 4 of them , A & T, C & G or in RNA there is A & U, C & G. there is a six one 
  • We have about 30,000 genes in our whole body
  • Blood Cells are the only cells that dont carry DNA because they dont have nuclei.
  • The reason they have no nuclei is because they have a specific biconcave shape, and a nucleaus would not let it have that. They have that shape because it allows them to have a bigger surface area
  • The part of the body that uses the most oxygen is the brain & the nucleus is the brain of the cell, so if it has a nucleus the oxygen that needs to be carried is going to be used up by the nucleus instead of being tranfered around the body.

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