What 'Genes' Means

This animation explains the influence that genes have on our everyday lives, from the colour of your eyes to the way your body works, grows and develops. The resources include: * An animation which explains how we are made of cells, where our genes can be found, what genes do and how this leads to variation between people. * A worksheet in which children look at the percentage of our genes that we share with a number of plants, animals and microbes. * A worksheet about genes, what they control and how we inherit them. * A factsheet providing information about genes, explaining how they are instructions for building proteins, how genetic disorders can happen and how many genes we have in our cells.