What are the functions of genes?
Posted April 19, 2023
Answer
Genes have several crucial functions.
- Carry hereditary information from one generation to another
- Control the functions of DNA and RNA
- Control the morphology or phenotype of individuals
- Play a role in protein synthesis
- Facilitate cell division
- Control the development of different stages in the life history of the organism
- Regulate the organism’s structure and metabolism
- Generate variations by reshuffling at the time of sexual reproduction
- Change expression by undergoing mutation
- Cross over to produce different linkages
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