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.
The modern working definition of a gene is a portion (or sequence) of DNA that codes for a known cellular function or process (e.g. the function make melanin molecules). A single 'gene' is most similar to a single 'word' in the English language. The nucleotides (molecules) that make up genes can be seen as 'letters' in the English language. Nucleotides are named according to which of the four nitrogenous bases they contain. The four bases are cytosine, guanine, adenine, and thymine.