Biological Bases of Behavior Practice Test

Genes are units of heredity—specific sequences of DNA that carry the information to make a protein or regulate when and where that protein is produced. They reside on chromosomes, which are long DNA molecules that organize and package many genes inside the cell. Nucleotides are the building blocks of DNA and RNA, forming the actual sequence that encodes genetic information. Proteins are the products produced when genes are expressed, not the genetic material itself. So the term that describes the genetic material that makes up chromosomes and can encode a protein is genes.