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Genes are the combination of DNA that denote molecular inheritance. Genes hold the information to build and maintain cells, as well as the genetic traits that will be passed to offspring. The Human Genome Project estimates that humans have somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 genes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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