A manual contains instructions for how to build a variety of structures, using a set of interlocking bricks. If this scenario is used as a model for genetic information, which statement is correct, would it be each set of instructions is a protein that interlocking bricks are the chromosomes the manual is a chromosome or each structure is a gene.
Each structure is a gene. In this model, each set of instructions for building a specific structure (protein) corresponds to a gene in the genetic information. The interlocking bricks represent the chromosomes, which contain the genetic information (instructions) for building various structures (proteins). The manual itself would not be equivalent to a chromosome, but rather a collection of genes (instructions) found within the chromosomes.
