Introduction

Basic Genetics

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:

Concepts covered in this section will help you to understand how cancer develops and how it may sometimes be inherited.

A permanent change that affects genes.
Functional units of DNA.
A strand of DNA that holds hereditary information.
The study of how traits get passed from one generation to the next.