"Every gene carries information about life," says Yang Wen-kuang, explaining that genes are the basic unit of heredity. Every human has 80,000 to 100,000 genes (this has yet to be accurately determined) divided among 23 pairs of chromosomes, and formed of the chemical compound DNA.
「每一個基因都帶有生命的訊息」，楊文光指出，基因是遺傳的基本單位，每個人身上大約有八到十萬個基因（目前未有定論），分佈在二十三對、四十六個染色體上，而 DNA 則是基因的化學化合物。