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Genetics - US News and World Report
News and articles about genetics from US News and World Report.
http://www.usnews.com/topics/subjects/genetics
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Gizmodo - 10 New Genetic Discoveries - And The Diseases They Could Treat
For years, scientists have recognized that many of the world's most dangerous diseases have an underlying genetic component. Even your susceptibility to conditions like heart disease and lung cancer, diseases closely tied to lifestyle factors like smoking and lack of exercise, are believed to be heavily influenced by your genetic makeup.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5835215/10-recent-genetic-discoveries-and-the-diseases-they-will-help-treat
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Dartmouth - Genetics: Past, Present, and Future
Genetics is the study of heredity and the variation of inherited elements known as genes. Although scientists have long known that an offspringâÂÂs traits come from its parents, the findings of Darwin and Mendel have really allowed scientists to begin to understand how and why genetic variation occurs.
http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/2013/05/genetics-past-present-and-future/#.V6uRSZMrK1s
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What Is Genetics? - News-Medical
Genetics is the study of heredity. Heredity is a biological process where a parent passes certain genes onto their children or offspring. Every child inherits genes from both of their biological parents and these genes in turn express specific traits.
http://www.news-medical.net/life-sciences/What-is-Genetics.aspx
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All About Genetics - Kids Health
What do you know about your family tree? Have any of your relatives had health problems that tend to run in families? Which of these problems affected your parents or grandparents?
http://kidshealth.org/en/parents/about-genetics.html
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Basic Genetics - About Education
Information and resources for understanding basic genetics concepts.
http://biology.about.com/od/basicgenetics/
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Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real - World Applications - The Great Courses
We use DNA routinely to cure diseases, solve crimes, and reunite families. Yet we've known about it for only 60 years. And what we're continuing to learn about it every day has the potential to transform our health, nutrition, society, and future.
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/understanding-genetics-dna-genes-and-their-real-world-applications.html
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How Genes Work - Genetics Home Reference
Proteins are made up of hundreds or thousands of smaller units called amino acids, which are attached to one another in long chains. There are 20 different types of amino acids that can be combined to make a protein. The sequence of amino acids determines each protein's unique 3-dimensional structure and its specific function. Learn more here.
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/howgeneswork?show=all
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Genetics and Your Baby - Parents
How genetics influence your baby's looks and personality.
http://www.parents.com/getting-pregnant/genetics/genetics-and-your-baby/
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How Do Genes Work? - Understanding Genetics
Genes are often called the blueprint for life, because they tell each of your cells what to do and when to do it: be a muscle, make bone, carry nerve signals, and so on. And how do genes orchestrate all this? They make proteins. In fact, each gene is really just a recipe for a making a certain protein.
http://genetics.thetech.org/about-genetics/how-do-genes-work
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Intro to Genetics - About Education
Links to resources that help explain the basics in this study of heredity or inheritance - how traits are passed from parents to their young.
http://biology.about.com/od/basicgenetics/a/aa071705a.htm
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What Is a Gene? - Understanding Genetics
Look closely at the chromosomes and you'd see that each is made of bundles of looping coils. If you unraveled these coils, you'd have a six-foot long double strand of deoxyribonucleic acid-DNA.
http://genetics.thetech.org/about-genetics/what-gene
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Genetics - The Biology Corner
Genetics includes the study of heredity, or how traits are passed from parents to offspring. The topics of genetics vary and are constantly changing as we learn more about the genome and how we are influenced by our genes.
http://www.biologycorner.com/lesson-plans/genetics/
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Learn Genetics
The Utah genetic science learning center.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu
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Genetics - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms. It is generally considered a field of biology, but it intersects frequently with many of the life sciences and is strongly linked with the study of information systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics