Special Episode: Evolution and Genetics
The Science of Everything Podcast
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Genes Code for Proteins, Not for Behaviors or Characteristics
A lot of people don't really understand what a gene is. genes code for proteins, not for behaviors or characteristics. There are some specific genes that correspond in a direct way to a particular observable characteristic. It's often very hard to make any sense of what genetic information is actually corresponding to at a level of the phenotypic effects.
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