are genes made of dna or protein?
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Genes are made up of DNA. Some genes act as instructions to make molecules called proteins. However, many genes do not code for proteins. In humans, genes vary in size from a few hundred DNA bases to more than 2 million bases.
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Notes: Genes are DNA sequences instruct cells to produce particular proteins, which in turn determine traits. Chromosomes are strings of genes. Mutations are changes in gene's DNA sequence. RNA is somewhat similar to DNA; they both are nucleic acids of nitrogen-containing bases joined by sugar-phosphate backbone.
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Answer and Explanation: The relationship between DNA and protein is that DNA has the code, or instructions, for making protein. DNA is the genetic material of the cell.
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Genes are made up of DNA. Each chromosome contains many genes.
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A gene is a short length of DNA found on a chromosome that codes for a particular characteristic or protein. Alleles are variations of the same gene. For example, eye colour is the gene but blue, green, brown etc. are alleles.
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A gene is a sequence of nucleotides along a DNA strand - with 'start' and 'stop' codons and other regulatory elements - that specifies a sequence of amino acids that are linked together to form a protein.
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Each chromosome contains genes for every physiological trait of a living organism in the form of long chains of DNA. Gene is a small stretch of dna we can say small nucleotide sequence, which would code for a particular protein.
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But the genes in your DNA don't make protein directly. Instead, special proteins called enzymes read and copy (or "transcribe") the DNA code. The segment of DNA to be transcribed gets "unzipped" by an enzyme, which uses the DNA as a template to build a single-stranded molecule of RNA.
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Both RNA and DNA are made up of a chain of nucleotide bases, but they have slightly different chemical properties. The type of RNA that contains the information for making a protein is called messenger RNA (mRNA) because it carries the information, or message, from the DNA out of the nucleus into the cytoplasm.
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A gene is a short section of DNA. DNA is made up of millions of small chemicals called bases. The chemicals come in four types A, C, T and G.
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Atoms are the smallest particle of matter. Genes are segments of DNA that code for a specific protein responsible for a trait in a living thing. Since genes take up space (have volume) and have mass, they are considered matter. Thus, genes are made of atoms.
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A gene can be described as: a series of DNA bases that contain information for production of a protein.
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Genes are composed of DNA arranged on chromosomes. Some genes encode structural or regulatory RNAs. Other genes encode proteins. Replication copies DNA; transcription uses DNA to make complementary RNAs; translation uses mRNAs to make proteins.
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The functional products of most known genes are proteins, or, more accurately, polypeptides. Polypeptide is just another word for a chain of amino acids. Although many proteins consist of a single polypeptide, some are made up of multiple polypeptides. Genes that specify polypeptides are called protein-coding genes.
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Genes are made up of DNA or RNA while the DNA is made up of the long chain of polynucleotides with adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine bases in it. “A gene transfers information for a specific trait while the DNA transfers all the information for all the traits as well as to regulate gene expression.”
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Each DNA sequence that contains instructions to make a protein is known as a gene. ... Genes only make up about 1 percent of the DNA sequence. DNA sequences outside this 1 percent are involved in regulating when, how and how much of a protein is made.
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Genes are segments of DNA which form tight coils called chromosomes. Chromosomes are segments of DNA which form tight coils called genes. Genes are segments of chromosomes which form tight coils called DNA.