Is the gene a substance found in the body? Or is it a kind of soul-like invisible thing?

Question

how traits are passed through the generations. ?
1. the idea of a gene, and how the genes of parents determine the genes of their offspring.
2. how the gene carries information in a way that enables it to be passed down to next generation.

Answer 1

It's called DNA, atom, basically genes are line up by orders, like the first numer is 3, then 1, then 7....etc, A,G, C, T, T, G, C, A,,,,in the order, if the order is messed up, then the animal or plant will have genetic disease

Answer 2

Ok, inside each cell, you have the master control/brain of the cell called the nucleus. It gives instructions that are contained within it. Within it are Chromosomes, which is basically DNA pieced together. A section of DNA that codes for a specific trait is called a gene. Inside a gene are things called nucleotides which are Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine. These four nucleotides pattern in different ways and numbers to form different traits or genes on a strand of DNA. (On RNA, Uracil replaces Thymine since it doesn't have Deoxyribose as a sugar but just Ribose.)

Genetics is very interesting. Genes as I mentioned pattern in different sequences to represent different traits. Some genes are dominant for some reason while others are recessive for another reason. When a mother and a father decide to have a child, the father gives the child his genes, and the mother gives genes, and it sort of a fight between who is dominant and who is recessive for each trait. For example, eye color. The Mother has a dominant gene of brown eyes and a recessive gene for blue eyes from her parents. The father carries two recessive genes for blue eyes. Draw a punnett square as seen on the first like in my source list. You can see out of four random possibilities the number of children with the desired color of eyes. Now, there are environmental and other genetic reasons why a child may turn out with green eyes because there are always billions of possibilities in science. All of the information is always carried by the offspring by dominant and recessive genes existing in the DNA until it is bred out by mixing dominant genes long enough!

I hope this answers your question well enough.

Answer 3

Genes are actual substances in the body that can be analyzed and separated and studied. DNA evidence is based on the discovery of our ability to do this. Traits are passed down through generations by the gazillion combinations possible within the genes themselves. That's why a member of the same family, could still be so very different from their immediate family, as the gene pool for that person could be based more in the collective past of the family rather than the immediate present of the same family. Genes have the ability to combine and recombine into many, various patterns. Dominant traits will hold sway over weaker ones. Like say, a family with musical ability, like the Osmonds or the Jackson family - the musical ability is presenting as a dominant trait, as nearly all members of these same families are musically gifted. As far as the genes of offspring from the genes of the parents, not enough is known as to why certain characteristics will combine over others. Man is still discovering the wealth of knowledge contained in the science of studying genes. There is a new branch to all of this called epigenetics. Scientists are discovering that even what our great grandparents ate or experienced, such as famines, can influence the gene pools of those several generations down the line. Fat-storing genes are suspected as having their origin from past generations who had little to eat, so their bodies had to adapt to this starvation environment which caused slower metabolisms to help those people survive the stark conditions of their existence. The genes passed down to those of us today, are still functioning in starvation mode, where we may no longer need this adaptation device, so the great majority of us are putting on weight in excess of what is actually required by us. There are ways being discovered every day, as to how to override certain gene influences and designations. You can change your genes to a certain extent. But we've got a very long way to go before we figure out the bigger picture. Evolution is a vast and intricate subject to contemplate! Fascinating stuff!

Answer 4

The gene is a part of your DNA. It is definetely a real substance. Your DNA is made up of four different proteins arranged in a long sequence, and is found in the nucleus of every cell. A certain section of that DNA determines, for example, your hair color. That section is a gene, specifically the gene for hair color.


Half of your genes come from your mother and half from your father. They are passed on in the two sex cells that combine to create the new baby. As these cells reproduce into new cells, the DNA is also copied, so each cell contains the same DNA. When you have a baby, half of your genes will be passed on also.

Answer 5

The definition of genes differ between a biochemist and a genetist. A gene is basically composed of DNA, and DNA is composed of combination of four NUCLEOTIDES (not protein). We have many different proteins in our body, but normally only four different nucleotides (A,T,G,C). So, parents pass down their trait to the offspring through DNA, and DNA can carry information because it encodes the protein to be translated (which determines production of enzymes, for example).

Answer 6

Soul like invisible thing? Are you serious?

A gene is a region of the genetic sequence with a definitive location. It corresponds to a unit of inheritance.

You can look up the rest.

Answer 7

The gene is a very real thing, made of arrangements of atoms in the DNA protien