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Significance of Protein

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what is gene? how genes control traits

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Gene is a basic physical and functional unit of hereditary that get transferred from parents to their progeny and decide which characteristics will progeny have. It is a functional unit of DNA. It control traits by encoding enzymes (proteins) that will act in a particular metabolic pathway to decide the characteristic of a particular individual.

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