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2. A symbol for heat.
3. A symbol in the field of cytogenetics (the study of the structure and function of cells) for the long arm of a chromosome (microscopic structures in cells that transmit genetic information), as a opposed to the short arm. Genetics refers to genes.
Genes are units of material contained in a person's cells that contain coded instructions as for how certain bodily characteristics (such as eye color) will develop. A cell is the smallest, most basic unit of life, that is capable of existing by itself. All of a person's genes come from his/her parents. This is why people have physical characteristic of their parents.
1. An abbreviation for the Latin word "quodque," which means "each" and "every."
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