Genes are the basic biological units that transmit characteristics from one generation to the next

In biology, the word gene has two meanings.

The Mendelian gene is a basic unit of heredity.

The molecular gene is a sequence of nucleotides in DNA,

that is transcribed to produce a functional RNA.

There are two types of molecular genes: protein-coding genes and non-coding genes.

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