Question

What is a more modern definition of a gene?

Group of answer choices
-A unit of heredity that is voluntarily transferred from a parent to an offspring
-An element of DNA that controls the characteristics that an offspring will have by transmitting information in the sequence of nucleotides to expressed proteins
-A sequence of nucleotides that leads to the expression of a protein
-An element of DNA that binds to proteins to induce translation
-Any DNA sequence that is used to produce RNA

Answer 1

Listen to pronunciation. (jeen) The basic unit of heredity passed from parent to child. Genes are made up of sequences of DNA and are arranged, one after another, at specific locations on chromosomes in the nucleus of cells.