MONTGOMERY COUNTY DISTRICT COURT LOCATIONS Hours of Operation: Both Montgomery County locations - 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday except legal holidays . Administrative Clerk - Markisha Gross. District Court for Montgomery County (06-01) 191 East Jefferson Street Rockville, MD 20850-2630. Bus Information: Ride On Buses, Routes 46, 54, 63, T2
sections of DNA in the chromosome that carry the information for the traits of an organism such as hair color, eye color, height, etc. Genes, like the chromosomes they make up, are in pairs. One half of the pair comes from one parent and one half from the other parent and are joined into pairs when the sperm fertilizes the egg during reproduction. Each member of a pair of genes is called an allele.
A gene is a segment of DNA containing the code used to synthesize a protein. A chromosome contains hundreds to thousands of genes. Every human cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, for a total of 46 chromosomes. A trait is any gene-determined characteristic and is often determined by more than one gene. Some traits are caused by abnormal genes that are inherited or that are the result of a new mutation.