ANS 3006C Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stop Codon, Messenger Rna, Bioinformatics
7 Sep 2016
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Genetics: the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms. Animal breeding: the branch of animal science that addresses the evaluation of the genetic value of livestock. Nucleus: the part of the cell that contains the genetic material. Chromosome: the structure in a cell that contains the dna, number of chromosomes: Cows have 30 pairs of chromosomes (60 total) Chickens have 39 pairs of chromosomes (78 total) Pigs have 19 pairs of chromosomes (38 total) Sheep have 27 pairs of chromosomes (54 total) Goats have 30 pairs of chromosomes (60 total) Horses have 32 pairs of chromosomes (64 total) Dna: a double stranded nucleic acid that codes for the genetic makeup of a cell. Gene: the active area on a chromosome that codes for a trait, and determines how that trait will develop, tell a cell how to function through the development of proteins.
