The Genome
- The entire set of the genetic material of an organism is known as its genome
- In 2003, scientists completed a 13-year project in which they sequenced the genes that make up the whole human genome
- This project was named the human genome project
- A gene is a section of DNA that codes for a particular sequence of amino acids
- These sequences of amino acids form proteins
- Genes control our characteristics as they code for proteins that play important roles in what our cells do