knowing what kind of genes I have?
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No. We don't even have that information for the human species as whole, much less for any individual.\n\nIf you have a few thousand dollars to spend you could get your genome sequenced completely. That stil wouldn't tell you what traits you have and wouldn't even tell you very much about what genes you have. But thatis the absolute best you can hope for.
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Using www.qtsaver.com I found this:\n"efficient strategy for mapping human genes that cause recessive diseases"
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I don't know how helpful my answer will be, but i will keep it short. The real answer for this question will be in a Biology textbook. \nBasicly, Genes are sequences of chemical pairings in a protein called DNA, found in the Nucleus of all living cells. There are many parts of a gene, each consisting of segments of these pairs of chemicals. When a special protein called a ribosome 'reads' these sequences, it produces other chemicals, proteins and enzymes which regulate your body's functions. \nFor example, There is a gene in your body for the color of your hair. If you are a red-head, your genes code for the release of more red-pigment by your hair follicles. \nThis control can be exerted on anything. Chemicals regulated by genes can stimulate your hypothalmus in your brain, and, for example, make you grow taller, or regulate otehr body functions that affect how you look. \n\nIn your vegetable, a gene might encode for a chemical that prtects it from bacteria or fungus, possibly slowing the decaying process caused by these organisms.
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I remember something like this in biology\n\nI am not going to do your homework for you, but you start by finding the percentages of phenotypes
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The genetic composition--the genotype--is what determines the phenotype of an individual. The phenotype is how the genes are expressed physically, thus it includes what it looks like.
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Not possible. Genetics give you what you have, be thankful for it.
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Blood type is not going to prove much of anything, since most populations have a mix of blood types. Some blood types are more common or rare in certain populations. In Asian populations, rH negative blood is about six times more rare than it is in the US, for instance. \n\nThe DNA tests used by the National Geographic Genographic Project will look at mitochondrial DNA for females, and will test either the Y-chromosone or mitochondrial DNA for males. In other words, you can test for the maternal ancestry of your mother's mother.  Guys can also test for the paternal ancestry of their father's father, but not for the ancestry of your father's mother. If your father tests his own mitochondrial DNA, or if his sister or sister's daughter did, you could find out about the ancestry of your father's mother. Perhaps if you offered to pay, they will provide the cells!\n\nYou pay about USD100 to order a testing kit. They send you a couple of cheek swabs--which are like a cross between a Q-tip and a toothbrush. You scrape some cells off the inside of your cheek, put the top of the swabs in vials, mark them with your code and send them in. \n\nA website tells you where your DNA sample is in the testing process when you enter your code. About two months after you send the swabs in, the website will tell you what haplotype was found in your DNA, and what they know about where your ancestors were 30 or 40 thousand years ago. \n\nThere are a few Native American haplotypes, and I wondered if my 18th century Georgia colony ancestors would turn out to have one of those. My results combined with my known genealogy suggest that my maternal ancestry came out of Africa through Central Europe and Scandinavia, invaded the British Isles as Vikings, and crossed the Atlantic as colonists.\n\nI happened to find this out the day before I took a ferry from Britain to the smaller island where my Viking/Scottish ancestors on my father's side lived 500 years ago. In between my maternal and paternal lines are a lot of French and Germans, even a woman who may have been Powhatan. But with my surname on one side and my DNA showing a similar heritage on the other, I have a pretty strong sense of ancestral identity now.
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In regards to what? Blood? Sex typing? Genes? Cars? You need to be more specific!!
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Then your only option is to get a blood test.  If you donate blood, they will tell you your type, plus you will be helping a great cause!
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Genetic Information\nDNA-RNA -Protien synthesis - Amino acid
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The total number of genes is estimated at 30,000\n\nfor more detailed information, go here-\n\nhttp://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/info.shtml
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Very simply put, dominance and recessiveness are characteristics of genes.\n\nA dominant gene is expressed (shows up visibly in the offspring) when only one copy of the gene is present, on one chromosome from one parent. Let's say Tallness is a Dominant gene. If you have ONE tall parent, and get ONE copy of the Tall gene, you will probably be tall. If your tall parent was the son or daughter of a TALL and a SHORT person, they may only have ONE copy of that gene. If you get both SHORT chromosomes from Mom and DAD, you will NOT be tall. So you have 50 to 100 chance of being tall with a Dominant gene.\n\nNow, let's take the gene for BLUE eyes. It is recessive. You need TWO copies of this gene to get blue eyes. If Mom has blue eyes and Dad has blue eyes, and you get copies of both blue eye genes, you will have blue eyes. But if Mom has blue eyes, and Dad has brown eyes, you might end up with Brown eyes. Don't that make your blue eyes brown, so to speak.\n\nBUT..if Dad's mom had blue eyes and Dad's dad brown (your grandparents) and if Dad has one blue eye gene and one brown eye gene and has brown eyes AND if your Mom still has those blue peepers, you have a 1/4 chance of ending up with one blue eyed gene from AND a blue eyed gene from Dad and you will also have blue eyes like your Mum. Don't that make your brown eyes...blue?
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Go to this website, you will find all the answers you need:\n\nhttp://plato.stanford.edu/entries/genotype-phenotype/
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alleles are genes.  basically, different types of genes are alleles.  for example, everyone has a gene for hair color.  however, not everyone has the same allele for hair color.  come have the "brown allele" while others have the "black allele" and so on.  a simple way of picturing this is that genes are ice cream scoops and the alleles are the different flavors.
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No surefire way to tell but everything can give you hints at your background.\nYour last name: Speilman=Jewish, Wilhelm=German etc...\nYour skin tone, hair qualities, nails, grandparents, family history!!!!!!\nTry and trace your roots through a local genealogical  society. They could help you find out who and where your ancestors lived, what they did and how you came to be.
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try looking your name up on yahoo searches they could tell all about your backgrounds.
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Stepwise-First you identify a gene of interest. Then, usually through years of work, you identify some function of the gene.  One way to identify this is to knock the gene out, a process called, approriately, gene knockout.  Knock out the gene in a cell line, or more interestingly, in an embryonic mouse- Now, if the embryo develops, you examine the animal, the tissue, the cellular funtions, and try to determine what has changed with the gene gone.  You can also overexpress the gene, so that it makes much more gene product, and see what happens then.  Once you have some handle on the function of the gene overall, you can make small mutations in it to determine exactly which part of the resultant protein does what.  Outside of scientific investigation, genetic engineering is used to make more viable or resistance plants (for example, put a gene that confers resistance to high salt, that you took from a plnat that grows in salty conditions, and put it into a strain of rice- now the rice can grow in high salt). It is also used to produce pharmaceuticals, such as antibodies- take a gene for an antibody out of the animal that makes it, put it in a bacteria or yeast, and then make tons of the stuff cheaply.