Genome is basically the total of the DNA in a cell, so is both the blueprint in how to create the full organism as well as instructions on how to construct proteins from smaller amino acids https://youtu.be/DfaPwWCvN5s
A genome is the complete set of genetic information. Essentially all the DNA in all of your chromosomes, including both coding regions and non-coding regions. It’s related because individual genes are what make cells do what they do.
A genome is a person’s full set of genetic DNA instructions. With a few exceptions, every single cell in your body contains your full genome as DNA in its nucleus. The difference in how cells function is which parts of the DNA it has access to.
It’s like every cell has a copy of the entire Wikipedia of You in its nucleus. But not every cell needs all that information, so they only search for what’s relevant to them. Brain cells only access the Brain category. Muscle cells only access the Muscle category, etc.
Your DNA is a manual for making you and keeping you alive. DNA is a huge molecule and smaller pieces of it, called genes, are instructions for a specific task. The whole thing is called the genome.
The genome map is like we made a table of contents so we know what parts of the DNA do what. The location of certain instructions (genes) are in the same place for different people but the instructions themselves can be a bit different.
Each of your cells has a copy of this manual (mostly). The cells will have the specific genes they need “bookmarked” so they can use those genes easily (epigenetics).
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Genome is basically the total of the DNA in a cell, so is both the blueprint in how to create the full organism as well as instructions on how to construct proteins from smaller amino acids https://youtu.be/DfaPwWCvN5s
A genome is the complete set of genetic information. Essentially all the DNA in all of your chromosomes, including both coding regions and non-coding regions. It’s related because individual genes are what make cells do what they do.
A genome is a person’s full set of genetic DNA instructions. With a few exceptions, every single cell in your body contains your full genome as DNA in its nucleus. The difference in how cells function is which parts of the DNA it has access to.
It’s like every cell has a copy of the entire Wikipedia of You in its nucleus. But not every cell needs all that information, so they only search for what’s relevant to them. Brain cells only access the Brain category. Muscle cells only access the Muscle category, etc.
Different restaurants use the same cookbook. The cookbook has recipes on how to make Chinese food or Italian food, etc.
The Chinese restaurant uses the Chinese recipes to make Chinese food, not Italian food even though the cookbook has recipes on Italian food.
Your different cells are the different restaurants. The cookbook is the genome. The individuals recipes are the genes.
(Furthering the analogy, the DNA is the alphabet the recipes are written in and the entire restaurant industry is you).
Your genome is basically your complete genetic “code.”
Every cell (almost) in your body contains two complete copies of your genome, stored in its nucleus as molecules of DNA.
Your DNA is a manual for making you and keeping you alive. DNA is a huge molecule and smaller pieces of it, called genes, are instructions for a specific task. The whole thing is called the genome.
The genome map is like we made a table of contents so we know what parts of the DNA do what. The location of certain instructions (genes) are in the same place for different people but the instructions themselves can be a bit different.
Each of your cells has a copy of this manual (mostly). The cells will have the specific genes they need “bookmarked” so they can use those genes easily (epigenetics).