
Making Sense of Genes
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What are genes? What do genes do? These seemingly simple questions are in fact challenging to answer accurately. As a result, there are widespread misunderstandings and over-simplistic answers, which lead to common conceptions widely portrayed in the media, such as the existence of a gene ''for'' a particular characteristic or disease. In reality, the DNA we inherit interacts continuously with the...
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What are genes? What do genes do? These seemingly simple questions are in fact challenging to answer accurately. As a result, there are widespread misunderstandings and over-simplistic answers, which lead to common conceptions widely portrayed in the media, such as the existence of a gene ''for'' a particular characteristic or disease. In reality, the DNA we inherit interacts continuously with the...
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