Synesthesia runs in families, so Galton said this is a hereditary basis, a genetic basis.

Now I'm not a geneticist, so I'm not going to pretend to understand the genetics.

Well, now he's growed and he gets his legacy.

Genetics, lifestyle and environment.

You have about 30,000 genes.

We genetically engineer bacteria.

And now the boys and the girls get them.

We can tell who's going to get breast cancer from the various genes.

That is the genomically literate world. And that is a problem.

In fact, it's not a genomically literate world.

Is it true that our genetic heritage is almost the same as that of chimpanzees?

Within the genetic code, there are 30,000 40,000 highly organized regions called genes. Genes are the basic unit of heredity, and, unless you are an identical twin, the combination of genes inherited from your parents is unique to you.

So we can work with geneticists who understand that.

Moreover, animal studies have shown that changes in stress or diet can alter the behavior and genes of future generations. As a result, it is likely that epigenetic changes can be inherited.

So what sex does is it enables the individual to draw upon the genetic innovations of the whole species.

Researchers often believe that their mission is to uncover new biology and genetics, and that someone else will translate them to the clinical arena. Accordingly, many geneticists have worked on big science genomics, including genome wide association studies focused on common genetic variation in the human species.

Those are the letters of genetic code, the 25,000 genes you've got written in your DNA.

That was a project which aimed to read one copy of the human genome.

So it does seem to be that basking sharks, for some reason, have incredibly low diversity.

Now we, as humans, we store our information as DNA in our genomes and we pass this information on to our offspring.

So you can actually estimate the population size based on the diversity of the genetics.

It's on the X chromosome. And so in this way you can only get it from your mother.

There's a huge amount of information about the genetics just by comparing the genetic similarity.

They have very few genes, and genetic information to encode all of the traits that they carry out.

IV 8. Access to genetic resources and sharing the benefits arising from the use of genetic resources

Before 2006, we had no idea of the genetic variability of basking sharks.

And I had a little tube with alcohol in it to send to the geneticists.

With regard to the deliberate release and introduction of genetically engineered organisms and the use of genome analysis and gene therapy for the treatment of human beings, and as a result of a federal act regulating the handling of genetically engineered organisms, i.e. the so called Gene Technology Act (Gentechnikgesetz), a gene technology commission and a permanent scientific committee for genome analysis and gene therapy have been established.

Cancer is a genetic disease, but studies found that only a small number of cancers are genetic.

Evolve biomorphs using genetic algorithms

Patents will not be granted for genetic material as found in nature, such as a gene in a plant or a fish.

For several years, some couples at risk of passing a genetic disease on to their children have used in vitro fertilization, producing several embryos that can be tested for the faulty gene and implanting in the woman s uterus only those without it. Now couples are using this technique to avoid passing on genes that imply a significantly elevated risk of developing certain forms of cancer.

Epigenetic inheritance occurs not only within individuals during their development it also occurs between generations individual yeast cells or bacterial cells can transmit epigenetic variations from one generation to the next, and multi cellular organisms can transmit them through their sperm and eggs. If the epigenetic state of its germ cells is altered during an organism s development, this variation can be transmitted to its descendants.

Indeed, the risk of Alzheimer s doubles if a parent or sibling has it, probably due in large part to the presence of the ApoE gene. The risk triples for Europeans who inherit a particular type of ApoE, called ε4 inheriting two copies of ε4 increases the risk roughly tenfold.

And very few of them control for the possibility that parents pass on genes for that increase the chances a child will be articulate or violent and so on.

And I suspect most geneticists don't understand it either, but they produce the numbers.

Although the Undertaking applied only to plant genetic resources, an area in which the concept of a global genetic commons was especially strong, all genetic material had traditionally been viewed as part of a global commons.

For example, epigenetics the study of heritable modifications of the genome that do not involve alterations to the genetic code is on the rise. And the many kinds of small RNA molecules are increasingly recognized as forming a regulatory layer above the genome.

TJ This is a herd, and it is built according to genetical codes.

Geneticists will know this, but every year since, it's been revised downwards.

Four epigenetic leukemia drugs, which aim to switch the natural protective genes back on, are now on the market in the United States. More than 40 other epigenetic drugs are being developed, not only for cancer, but also for obesity and even dementia.

That's how the same gene code that's why you have 30,000 genes, mice have 30,000 genes, husbands have 30,000 genes.

There was a manic depressive in her family, on her mother's side.

Genetic encoding

(b) Genetic medicine