What is "genes"

Usage examples of "genes".

For example, there are plenty of genes that regulate their own activity.

In our computer model, therefore, we must have something equivalent to embryonic development, and something equivalent to genes that can mutate.

An animal's genes are never a grand design, a blueprint for the whole body.

The genes, as we shall see, are more like a recipe than like a blueprint.

It is by influencing these local events that genes ultimately exert influences on the adult body.

In real animals and plants there are tens of thousands of genes, but we shall modestly limit our computer model to nine.

I shan't spell out in detail what each one of the other eight genes does.

The reason for wanting 18 is that there are nine genes, and each one can mutate in an 'upward' direction (1 is added to its value) or in a ' downward' direction (1 is subtracted from its value).

And in the computer model too, the numerical values of the nine genes only mean something when they are translated into growing rules for the branching tree pattern.

Geneticists normally don't know how genes exert their effects on embryos.

It is more complicated than that, because the effects of genes interact with each other in ways that are more complicated than simple addition.

Each child gets its shape from the values of its own nine genes (influencing angles, distances, and so on).

Then those same genes either get passed on to the next generation or they don't.

The nature of the genes is unaffected by their participation in bodily development, but their likelihood of being passed on may be affected by the success of the body that they helped to create.

REPRODUCTION passes genes down the generations, with the possibility of mutation.