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.
Biology 442 - Human Genetics. The Human Genome, DNA, Chromosomes & Gene Structure. On June 23, 2000, there was an announcement that the first draft of the human book of life had been revealed. The resulting sequence is approximately 3.12 billion bases long and includes more than 99.9% of the human genome. Some scientists had organized a gene pool where, for $1, you could record a prediction of how many human genes there would be. The best guesses ranged from 30,000 to 120,000.