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Can you tell me how are individual human characteristics eg. colour blindness a product of our genetic makeup?
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Genetics-Epigenetics: We have 46 chromosomes. These contain our genetic make-up-The 46 chromosomes are identical in all 50 Trillion cells.We got 23 from mom and 23 from dad-These 46 chromosomes have 30,000 genes-These genes make up the DNA that instructs each/every cell on what to do, what to specialize in, and when to do it (when to turn on and when to turn off and when to die)-Color blindness (or eye color)is fixed
Answered 10/6/2017
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