The latest 1 page summary of a science topic from Seed Magazine – Genetics cribsheet:
The field of genetics deals with the way living things store and use information required for their development and behavior. This Cribsheet covers the basics of molecular genetics: DNA replication, the genetic code, and gene expression. In addition, we tell you how genome sequencing has progressed over the last decade and what researchers hope to accomplish with synthetic biology.
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I’ve always been interested about genome ever since I read the study by Gregor Mendel about how he discover the recessive and dominant gene. Sometimes I do some experiment on using my swordtail fish which has a certain basic characteristics and to find out which gene is the one dominant. This helps to create population of fish with the feature that I want.