Introduction
In this section, you will find information about basic concepts of genetics, including what genes are and how they are passed on in families.
This section will help answer the following questions:
- What is a chromosome, and how does it relate to genes?
- What are genes made of, and what do they do?
- What is a gene mutation, and what do mutations have to do with cancer?
Concepts covered in this section will help you to understand how cancer develops and how it may sometimes be inherited.