What is genes? Write difference between genes and chromosomes?

1.	What is genes? Write difference between genes and chromosomes?
Answer» Gene is\xa0a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.Genes\xa0contain DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). DNA\xa0is\xa0the chemical basis\xa0of\xa0heredity. Think\xa0of\xa0it this way: DNA\xa0is\xa0in\xa0genes,\xa0genes\xa0are on\xa0chromosomes. When "mapping" all\xa0genes\xa0on all human\xa0chromosomes\xa0was first seriously conceived, it was called the Human Genome Project - a combination\xa0of gene and chromosome. Gene is the functional segment of DNA

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