A name that means replacement.. A family may give the name to a male whose father or older brother has died. CAWO f Somali. A name that comes from the Somali word cawo which means luck.. Outside of Somalia, Somalis may spell it as Awo. name that means replacement.. A family may give the name to a male whose father or older brother has died. CAWO f Somali. A name that comes from the Somali word cawo which means luck.. Outside of Somalia, Somalis may spell it as Awo.
A gene is the basic physical and functional unit of heredity. Genes, which are made up of DNA, act as instructions to make molecules called proteins. In humans, genes vary in size from a few hundred DNA bases to more than 2 million bases. The Human Genome Project has estimated that humans have between 20,000 and 25,000 genes. Every person has two copies of each gene, one inherited from each parent. Most genes are the same in all people, but a small number of genes (less than 1 percent of the total) are slightly different between people.
The Human Genome Project has already fueled the discovery of more than 1,800 disease genes. As a result of the Human Genome Project, todayâs researchers can find a gene suspected of causing an inherited disease in a matter of days, rather than the years it took before the genome sequence was in hand. There are now more than 2,000 genetic tests for human conditions.