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What is the length of DNA called?


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Gene:

  1. Gene is known as the length of DNA as it codes for protein.
  2. Wilhelm Johannsen, a Danish botanist, plant physiologist, and geneticist, coined the term "gene" in 1909.
  3. Genes can experience sequence mutations, which result in various alleles, or variants, in the population.
  4. The basis for the inheritance of phenotypic traits is the transfer of genes to an organism's progeny.
  5. These genes make up several genotypes, which are DNA sequences.
  6. A gene can vary in size from 100 nucleotides to more than 10000 nucleotide sequences and is defined as the physical functional unit of hereditary.


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