AAUW GENERAL MEETING JANUARY

Vancouver WA Website Programs page PhotoAAUW GENERAL MEETING JANUARY 14. 2017 10:00 A.M.

Community Room at Pacific Continental Bank, First Floor of the Hudson Building
101 Sixth Street, Vancouver 98660


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Prof. Steve Sylvester speaker AAUW Vancouver WA Jan 2017DNA GENETICS

Each person has the same set of genes – about 20,000 in all. The differences between people come from slight variations in these genes. Chromosomes are organized into short segments of DNA called genes. If you imagine your DNA as a cookbook, then your genes are the recipes.

Written in the DNA alphabet – A, T, C, and G – the recipes tell your cells how to function and what traits to express. For example, if you have curly hair, it is because the genes you inherited from your parents are instructing your hair follicle