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Author: Peter J. Russell, Paul E. Hertz, Beverly McMillan
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Genes are a fundamental unit of life, made up of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) sequences and contains coding and noncoding sequences. The coding sequences codes for a specific protein and these proteins perform distinct functions in a cell.

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