“THE GENETIC

CODE”

Prepared by:

JOYCELEN MAE T. SANTA

Every organism requires a set of coded instructions for
specifying its traits. For offspring resemble their
parents, information must be reliably transferred from
one generation to another.
 Heredity
is the passage of
these instructions
from one generation
to another.
What is the importance of heredity?
Heredity is important to all living organisms as it
determines which traits are passed from parent to child.
 DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)

Chemically active agent of the gene. DNA interacts

with the cell’s chemical factory and produces the
observable effects of phenotype when genes are
inherited by a cell or an organism.
Active agent it is a
DNA regulates the production chemical agent
of enzymes in the cell and capable of activity.
thereby enables the cell to
perform the complex cellular
chemical reaction necessary Phenotype refers to an
to sustain life. individual's observable
traits, such as height, eye
color and blood type
Stem - cell Therapy
- focuses on the use of stem cells to treat or
prevent a disease or condition.
- a special read of cells that are capable of
differentiating into more than one kind of tissue.
- are used for curing various diseases such as
diabetes, arthritis, few cancers and bone marrow
failure.
Thank you.